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The drives are reliable so far. One is a WD Caviar black - the other a WD Green. Each has a back up, Samsung and WD Green respectively hooked up via a disk caddy over USB2 and Carbon Copy Cloner. So would I go for RAID 0 and maintain a back up rather than RAID level 1 which would half my space?
The thunderbolt enclosures are fairly pricey. Any idea who sells a good one?
I use a 6TB Pegasus RAID at work and it is really good - but it did cost £1K which is way over my budget.
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Are the drives presumably internal on your old Mac Pro?
How are they configured at the moment?
Are they reliable drives still? Do you have something else backing them up? If the drives are solid still get a thunderbolt raid for them to sit in and you'll kick yourself for not having done it earlier. Made such a difference to our workflow and storage. Only thing I don't like about it is booting it up every time you want to use it - not sure I trust even our GTech ev studio raid to be left on more than a working day at a time though I know you can get enterprise class drives which are designed for spinning their entire lifespan pretty much.