Portable Raid

[NickT]

Thanks to Matt for pointing me at this neat enclosure:
http://www.addonics.com/products/enclosures/AE25RDESU.asp

Nick-T

[Phil G]

Thanks Nick

Interesting but I think it's got a limited market ok if you have 2.5" drives to spare, it may be ok to house CF cards when they drop in price.

You will need a eSATA to Express Card 34 Adaptor to connect to your laptop @$40 - $80
As it uses one eSATA cable assume it must have port multiplication.

The eSATA connection is good but it's only marginally faster than FW 800 and you need separate power supply either USB or external  unlike FW which can use bus power.

The NAS feature is novel but you'll be lucky to get 10MB/sec

I was setting up my system over the weekend and using share down a direct connected Ethernet cable (20Meters) between two Mac's and  I could transfer at 76MB/sec 

I think I will stick with a couple of Fire Wire 800 Lacie Rugged which can be  configured to whatever RAID type  required through Disc Utility

But I'm never happy until I have copies on at least two separate 3.5" HDDs in different physical locations

Thats why I have a Wiebetech portable 4 bay unit not as portable as the addonics unit but fits in a Peli case along with the MBP if I need to take it with me.

Regards

Phil