Ultra quiet 2 bay RAID

[James Lee]

no one will reply u

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Why, did I write something wrong?

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3

[Franz Hollweck]

Hi Fabrizio,

I Know the problem. I’m afraid, you will not find an ultra quiet RAID0-array with built in fans. You colt have a look at the Seagate Portable Hard drive Backup Plus Fast with 2 Hard drives in it (2 x 2,5“ 2TB-= 4 TB). But it comes only with USB 3.
https://www.seagate.com/de/de/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/performance/backup-plus-fast-hdd/

An alternative could be an external enclosure, where you put your own hard drives in it. I think of Akitio (= Inxtron) Taurus Mini Super-S3 LCM., that is for 2,5“ hard drives.
https://www.akitio.com/portable-storage/taurus-mini-super-s3-lcm
https://www.inxtron.com/multi-bay-raid-enclosures/taurus-mini-super-s3

If you need the speed of RAID 0, why don’t you buy some SSD-drives? The bigger ones now have a capacity of 1 TB.

Greetings from Bavaria

Franz

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Thank you Franz.
I had found an interesting set of 2×2.5″ drives, bus powered, USB 3.0 + FW800, fanless: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/RAID/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
But the seagate seems to be a perfect solution. The only problem would be that I could not use the FW800 port on my 2011 MBP for editing on a train or in a remote location without the need to plug my Belkin adapter like I would with the OWC. However, I’ll update the laptop very soon and the problem will be gone.
Instead of working on a single RAID0 array, plugging it alternatively between the MP and the MBP, I could build and keep sync’ed the media folder, and exchange the library containing the project. I already run some test and it seems to work fine, FCPX recognizing the files on different drives without the need of reconnecting them.The USB 3.0 would provide enough speed, and 4 Tb would be more than adequate for my standard project (2 Tb would be good as well, 1 Tb a bit to tight). It’s a bit more tricky than just plugging the array, but it should work, and the bus powering should make it very portable. I hope temperature issues are not affecting reliability too much.
Kind regards

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3