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Re: Why You Should Never Buy Dual Drive (RAID 0) External Hard Drives

Mark — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:19:13 -0000

raid is redundency. redundency is not backup. its purpose is to keep things running in the event of hardware failure while you quickly swap in the spare drive you have sitting at the ready beside your computer. consider even a folder on a RAID1 device that is accidentally deleted. Yes the pics in the folder were technically saved to two physical drives, but oops you just deleted them all from both drives. no backup, no pics.

Re: Why You Should Never Buy Dual Drive (RAID 0) External Hard Drives

Wouterde1 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:19:02 -0000

my pc works on 2 500 gb hdd's in raid 0 works really fast and i love it. never had problems with it. it depends on a lot of things if raid 0 works or not. but ass backup i would never use it! i have a external back up drive to make sure i dont lose information on my pc. when my pc ever crashes on a hdd i just buy a new one swap it with the crashed one and open the back up so i wont lose nothing and still have the fast peed of raid 0. but with ssd i'm thinking of buying one of these :P!

raid 0 isn't that bad! had it one every pc so thats like 6 years long. and never had to use a back up because of drive faillure! just once because of a virus...

Re: Why You Should Never Buy Dual Drive (RAID 0) External Hard Drives

2TB External Hard Drive — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:17:33 -0000

Looking for a 2tb external hard drive at the moment. Preferably with eSATA.

Re: Why You Should Never Buy Dual Drive (RAID 0) External Hard Drives

alpine car dvd player gps — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:44:27 -0000

The RAID array instantly repopulates all of the data that formerly resided on the old drive.

Re: Why You Should Never Buy Dual Drive (RAID 0) External Hard Drives

sleeprunner — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:51:18 -0000

Thanks for the article. I purchased one of these drives last month along with some used network equipment, which thankfully has turned out great, but the drive however soon started failing. Now I understand exactly why, next time I will do some more research before buying any used drives.