05-02-2007, 04:36 PM
>>would you consider this one a "lower end" one?
Yeah, pretty much anything less than an Xserve RAID is low end.
Go ahead and try whatever suits you best but test how it responds when you remove a drive (simulating a failure) or add a drive.
Perhaps you know this but -
RAID 1 is for uptime. There a number of ways that your data can be corrupted where a RAID 1 won't protect you. Simply using a dual drive enclosure and doing two separate backups would be safer from a backup standpoint.
Yeah, pretty much anything less than an Xserve RAID is low end.
Go ahead and try whatever suits you best but test how it responds when you remove a drive (simulating a failure) or add a drive.
Perhaps you know this but -
RAID 1 is for uptime. There a number of ways that your data can be corrupted where a RAID 1 won't protect you. Simply using a dual drive enclosure and doing two separate backups would be safer from a backup standpoint.