External SATA RAID enclosure?

mrk

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mrk

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I'm looking to shift around my harddrives as storage requirements are changing!

I'm going to buy a 2TB drive to replace my Documents drive (1TB WD Green) at present and I also have a backup drive that I sync the docs drive to, a 1TB USB2 WD MyBook (WD Blue).

I want to take out the MyBook drive and pair it with the 1TB Green in Raid enclosure to give 2TB of backup storage for the new 2TB drive so everything is exactly as it was but +1TB storage and +1TB backup.

Does anyone know of a decent enclosure that will allow me to do this? I've come across a few but they seem to allow 1500GB max in Raid.

Cheers!
 
Hmm that is rather expensive for just local backup requirements unfortunately!
 
I wouldn't recommend using a RAID0 array as a backup drive. You'd be better off sticking the 1Tb WD Green into a plain external caddie on it's own (and have 2 separate externals). Then sync half of the paths on the 2Tb to one external and half to the other.

It's a pain to setup but it's a cheaper and probably more reliable solution than a RAID array.
 
That does sound a bit tedious yeah - by the looks of it I think the best solution would just be 2x 2TB drives then, a shade over £100 for a 2TB drive now so both would work out cheaper than a complete NAS solution with 2TB of storage.

I can then keep the MyBook as an OS backup drive for system images.

Hmm something to think about!
 
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