GrahamWelland
Subscriber & Workshop Member
Another :thumbdown: for Lacie here too. I have a pile of Lacie disk units that eventually failed.
I personally use a combination of internal RAID using eSATA drives and an Apple RAID controller inside my MacPro, plus a secondary external RAID (AMCC/3WARE Sidecar) which backs up the internal drives.
Important other considerations - don't rely on RAID as a 100% reliable storage solution. You need to maintain a backup of the RAID!
If you go with a RAID solution I HIGHLY recommend finding one that can support 2+ parity drives such as RAID 6 or mirrored solutions like RAID 10. After having had a RAID power bus failure that lost 2 drives I can attest to how huge a pain in the rear it is to rebuild and recover. If I hadn't had an external backup of the RAID I'd have been totally screwed.
I personally use a combination of internal RAID using eSATA drives and an Apple RAID controller inside my MacPro, plus a secondary external RAID (AMCC/3WARE Sidecar) which backs up the internal drives.
Important other considerations - don't rely on RAID as a 100% reliable storage solution. You need to maintain a backup of the RAID!
If you go with a RAID solution I HIGHLY recommend finding one that can support 2+ parity drives such as RAID 6 or mirrored solutions like RAID 10. After having had a RAID power bus failure that lost 2 drives I can attest to how huge a pain in the rear it is to rebuild and recover. If I hadn't had an external backup of the RAID I'd have been totally screwed.