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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 454768" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>RAID1 is your only choice for data redundancy with less than 3 drives. Yes, there will be additional load on the disks as they maintain the mirror, but I can tell you from many years of experience with servers that it does not usually make the disks fail prematurely. I have several servers that have a mirrored system volume and they've been up and running without a failure for 5+ years.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You can use whatever case you want, including FW800, because your hard drive can still transmit data faster than any of those buses can actually relay it to the host. The only time you need to be concerned with what type of external bus the enclosure supports is if you have a SATA hard drive - if your computer has external SATA ports (ESATA) and the fastest possible connection is important to you, then make sure you get an enclosure that supports ESATA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 454768, member: 24098"] RAID1 is your only choice for data redundancy with less than 3 drives. Yes, there will be additional load on the disks as they maintain the mirror, but I can tell you from many years of experience with servers that it does not usually make the disks fail prematurely. I have several servers that have a mirrored system volume and they've been up and running without a failure for 5+ years. You can use whatever case you want, including FW800, because your hard drive can still transmit data faster than any of those buses can actually relay it to the host. The only time you need to be concerned with what type of external bus the enclosure supports is if you have a SATA hard drive - if your computer has external SATA ports (ESATA) and the fastest possible connection is important to you, then make sure you get an enclosure that supports ESATA. [/QUOTE]
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