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Originally Posted by sperry
You think an external drive that you swap in and out, move between systems, bump into stuff, etc is going to be more reliable than a drive inside a nice big PC tower? Computer crashes don't destroy data, physical drive crashes destroy data... and external drives are less protected than those inside a "permanent" case. Plus, I've never seen an external drive that's a 1TB RAID array. 
Perhaps you're talking about network storage arrays, not external drives? |
My RAID "array" will be a raid card in my next PC with 4 USB ports on the back, for 4 500gig HDDs. They would be placed in a manner where they would experience no more moving about or falling down than the tower they are connected to would. I just want the external setup because it's a bit more flexible and convenient if the tower they are connected to goes down or gets replaced. Then it's just swapping the card and reinstalling the software, instead of swapping 4 HDDs. It's certainly not the only good solution but based on my personal criteria I think I like it best.
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(Also 1Tb = 1 terrabit, which is only 128GB... bytes are capital B's  )
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Um, that's what I meant... it's for my old Thy DungeonQuest games.
