Hardware Raid 1 320GB FW800 drive $340!

[Evin Grant]

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/raid_1/Gmax
This could be the solution for backing up Red drives or CF cards in the field.

Capacities all the way up to 1TB. No bus power though.

 

[Curran Giddens]

Capacities all the way up to 1GB. No bus power though.

You mean capacities up to 1TB. Looks like a nice "in the field" backup solution. I also recommend OWC as an excellent online retail outlet.

 

[J. Bernard Vallon]

I've got one of these and I'm going to buy another one when i get my red. I recommend them. There is a difference between the silver version and the black version, but i cant remember what it is.

 

[Evin Grant]

1TB Yes, it's changed. Thanks.

 

[Evin Grant]

I've got one of these and I'm going to buy another one when i get my red. I recommend them. There is a difference between the silver version and the black version, but i cant remember what it is.

Silver is software RAID and I've used these and although they are a good product there can be software problems that the Hardware RAIDs simply do not have.

 

[Alexander Black]

Here's hoping the weibetech peoples come out with an RTX 2 disk chassis:

http://weibetech.com/products/RTX100.php

Would be ideal, with the cute handle etc. The 100 has every useful interface, which is great - you could actually use two of these with a little SATA PCIe card and run softraid or apple's crap. Nice n' fast, and you can get 24TB in a small static shielded pelican that's carryon legal

I too would be inclined to use a hardware raid...

http://g-technology.com/Products/G-SAFE.cfm

That's a bit more expensive but can use trays, which is very nice. GTech's stuff is overpriced but excellent. I've never had a drive of theirs fail on me. Can't say that for many other vendors, though I hear S.Two has (still) a pristine reputation except for one instance of someone intentionally dropping a "mag" to be an a**hole and prove a point

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[Michael Morlan]

I saw at Fry's today:

AMS Venus DS3R - FW800, dual hot-swap PATA, RAID0/1, rebuilds 2nd drive from primary, $150

500gb Maxtor PATA, 7200rpm, 16mb cache - $100 (new sales each week)

$350 total for a 1TB drive system.

Load up two drives, post with them, store them, repeat...