Raid & external U.S.B querry

Hi World,

Is this possible is the question that should be asked...

Would like to be able to raid to external device - usb 3 will be coming out soon? yay.

Would like to be able to raid to external usb devices, potential to remove one drive and have it rebuild to another external usb drive, thus having a virtually identicle backup including the things that some backup apps dont cover.

Then instead of waiting for a disk to repair should one fail one could just slap in the other drive...this is all theroetical and there are possibly? many apps, assuming software would be the way to achieve this, that could do the task, ...just want to know if its possible / feasable..any clues:confused...:wave

Thanks in advance for input on this:wave:major

 

I'm not up on the latest USB3 info, but I would say that "NO- you cannot set up a RAID with external USB drives". Then again, this would depend on the motherboard and the BIOS and chipset (I think). You can accomplish the same thing by using hot-swappable SATA drives, however. You can use a device like this one and fit it into one of the CD bays in your case....

 

thanks again dlb,

Was just wondering if this was possible... wasnt thinking of the "old" hot-swappable technology, but still logical / practical advice. Which is the more practicable option providing the unit has enough drive bays, and most servers do. Was thinking along the lines for peoples P.C's at home, like me, with large media content i have close to 750GB of media.

Most of it on my 500gb I hate to see fail, I'd have a mini meltdown "geeklt-down" and there are only so many dvds for backup... - only have a single layer DvD unit anyway. My old ide motherboard with three pci slots doesnt have room for another card for Sata either:-o...so my drives are ide / pata..which would mean software raid...? dont no much about this....hence in my scenario querry,...guess it would be best just to get another larger drive and do a Weekly backup or similar with an append to....:zzz

As far as I know the specs for USB are
1.0 = 12Mbs
2.0 = 480Mbps
3.0 = around 3200Mbps (woah doggie) compared to 2.0 wouldnt take long to large transfer files over usb. Think thats the usb 3.0 speed although wouldnt bank on it read something a little while back...

L8rmajor:wave