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<blockquote data-quote="RocketCowboy" data-source="post: 610718" data-attributes="member: 25095">My only guidance with RAID 1, don't consider the two drives in the RAID 1 set to be separate copies. It is a redundant set of one copy.With both drives being in the same enclosure, with the same USB controller and the same power supply, they are both vulnerable to the same set of physical failures. Worse, I've seen failing drive controllers manifest to corrupt data across both drives in the set, since after all ... its mirrored, for better or for worse.My primary drive is mirrored (I use a G-Technology G-RAID for primary image storage), but for quick recovery from a single drive failure. That storage is then replicated to a RAID 5 NAS, then replicated to a third G-RAID off-site at my office. The primary storage is then archived via Time Machine to another external hard drive as well as to the cloud via CrashPlan. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RocketCowboy, post: 610718, member: 25095"] My only guidance with RAID 1, don't consider the two drives in the RAID 1 set to be separate copies. It is a redundant set of one copy. With both drives being in the same enclosure, with the same USB controller and the same power supply, they are both vulnerable to the same set of physical failures. Worse, I've seen failing drive controllers manifest to corrupt data across both drives in the set, since after all ... its mirrored, for better or for worse. My primary drive is mirrored (I use a G-Technology G-RAID for primary image storage), but for quick recovery from a single drive failure. That storage is then replicated to a RAID 5 NAS, then replicated to a third G-RAID off-site at my office. The primary storage is then archived via Time Machine to another external hard drive as well as to the cloud via CrashPlan. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]

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