Pchan 5,162 Report post Posted May 9, 2007 Is it really that important to check if the External Hard Drive has either a Raid 1 or Raid 0 capability? I'll quote a website technician on his thoughts; I would highly recommend that you go with a RAID-1 (Mirroring) configuration. Having a RAID 0 disk configuration if any one of the two drives fail then the entire data set on both drives will become unavailable. The reason for this is in a RAID 0 configuration, information is written across the 2 drives. Hence, if any one drive fails, you would only have half of the data necessary to allow a drive set to be mounted and visible by any OS. There by making both drives useless. It is important to also note that unlike RAID 1, replacing the broken drive does not rebuild your RAID 0 set. This forces you to create a new RAID 0 which will be completely devoid of any old data. In a RAID 1 configuration, if you have 1 drive fail. The mirrored drive picks up without missing a step. The trade off here is total drive storage vs. redundancy. Where RAID 0 offer more drive space but no redundancy. Eppy, I can't find the Western Digital 500 Gig Ext HD on newegg *slams table*How's this;http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148235 Quote I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eppy 3,446 Report post Posted May 9, 2007 raid doesnt mean crap for jsut a single drive jsut ignore it thats nice...but so is this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136061 and here is the 500 GB WD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136025 Quote "That fairy needs to stop shouting in my ear, or I'm going to throw her friend I have trapped in the bottle into a lava pit or something. HEY, LISTEN! No, YOU listen. If something's important, just say so without yelling at me. Or fly over to it and change color like you usually do. Just because I'm busy mowing the lawn and hoping I'll find some spare change, doesn't mean I can't hear you." - Link Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gokuDX7 2,871 Report post Posted May 9, 2007 Having a RAID 0 disk configuration if any one of the two drives fail then the entire data set on both drives will become unavailable. You only have one HDD right? Why bother with raid then? Quote All hail piggy, king of bacon ^)^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sledgstone 8,672 Report post Posted May 10, 2007 you don't need to worry about raid, just the storage space and probably brand. most externals have decent cache and speeds so you don't even need to really worry about that either. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
