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edge.it · Jan 24, 2007, 07:45 PM

i am looking to get a 1TB of space via FW 800 to do scheduled backups of my mac books internal drive and my seritek raid 0.

i saw the new WD my book II 1 TB for 423 on new egg but the reviews werent amazing ide say a B/B+.
but it did look tempting, any other any ideas?

krove · Jan 24, 2007, 08:00 PM

Try this: Mercury Elite Aluminum Pro 800 MIRROR RAID Solutions at OtherWorldComputing.com

OWC has great customer service and excellent products.

indigoimac · Jan 24, 2007, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by krove

Try this: Mercury Elite Aluminum Pro 800 MIRROR RAID Solutions at OtherWorldComputing.com

OWC has great customer service and excellent products.

I just bought one of thoes (but w/o HDs and no RAID, separate drive channels, same chip/bridge though) and it's been great, I highly, highly recommend it! Also OWC continues to be one of the best companies catering to the Mac community.

mduell · Jan 24, 2007, 08:26 PM

Newegg.com - Fantom G-Force MegaDisk 1TB 3.5" External Hard Drive - Retail

Hitachi just annoucned 1TB drives, so soon you'll be able to do it without one of the dual-drive enclosures (and their inherent increased risk of data loss).

krove · Jan 25, 2007, 08:11 AM

A dual-drive, mirror RAID setup has inherently LESS risk of data loss.

jebjeb · Jan 25, 2007, 09:46 AM

I think it was obvious that Mark was referring to dual drive RAID 0 setups opposed to a two drive RAID 1 setup with the new 1TB drives.

Appologies to Mark if I am putting words in your mouth.

kamina · Jan 25, 2007, 10:37 AM

All of the current dual disk solutions are using RAID 0 by default (Maxtor, Buffalo, La Cie and WD). You can change that to RAID 1 in part of them, but then it won't be a 1TB drive any more.

So basicly you have double the chance to lose all your data by using any of the current 1TB drives.

mduell · Jan 25, 2007, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by krove

A dual-drive, mirror RAID setup has inherently LESS risk of data loss.

And none of the external drives mentioned in this thread use RAID1.

krove · Jan 25, 2007, 09:00 PM

My apologies, the link I provided was to a RAID 1 setup.

mduell · Jan 26, 2007, 08:20 AM

Mea culpa, I ignored the link that didn't meet the original poster's requirement (1TB capacity).

Cadaver · Jan 28, 2007, 09:45 PM

You can certainly get 750GB in a single drive currently; 1TB drives are coming...

dpicardi · Jan 29, 2007, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by krove

Try this: Mercury Elite Aluminum Pro 800 MIRROR RAID Solutions at OtherWorldComputing.com

OWC has great customer service and excellent products.

Would I be correct to assume the following since this drive has Firewire 400 and 800 plus USB2?

That I could connect it to a Macbook Pro or a Mac Pro with Firewire 800 and to a new Airport base station via USB 2 simultaneously. Then have my iTunes library on the external HD so that it could wirelessly stream to AppleTV?

Can my wife be surfing through photos in iPhoto from it wirelessly, it streaming music to AppleTV, and me importing files to it simultaneously?

Love to hear peoples thoughts in this and what if any solution might be better to accomplish this. One of the reasons this appeals to me is that I would not have to have my main CPU on 24 hours a day. Just the external HD.

mduell · Jan 29, 2007, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by dpicardi

Would I be correct to assume the following since this drive has Firewire 400 and 800 plus USB2?

Yes, that's what the link says.

Originally Posted by dpicardi

That I could connect it to a Macbook Pro or a Mac Pro with Firewire 800 and to a new Airport base station via USB 2 simultaneously.

No.

Originally Posted by dpicardi

Then have my iTunes library on the external HD so that it could wirelessly stream to AppleTV?

Can my wife be surfing through photos in iPhoto from it wirelessly, it streaming music to AppleTV, and me importing files to it simultaneously?

Yes, no, depends. You can't add photos while your wife views photos in iPhoto, but you can add music in iTunes while she views photos.

dpicardi · Jan 30, 2007, 01:06 PM

Mark,

Can you go into more detail as to why the "No" in question #2? I get that she can't be looking at photos while I'm importing but I'm stumped as to why #2 is a No. How else does Apple expect us to use the new Airport Extreme units feature of holding an itunes library via the USB connection so that it can stream to Apple TV?

I believe you can see what I'm looking to do. Any other suggestions?

Thanks for your insight.

Dave

mduell · Jan 30, 2007, 07:10 PM

The second question, or the second part of the third question?

Second questions: You can't use both the Firewire and USB ports at the same time.

Second part of the third question: I don't think Apple TV could stream content from an arbitrary network share. I think you need to be running iTunes on the system with the content you want to share.