[OSX-Users] Re: Western Digital ShareSpace

[Philip Boulain]

On 13 Jul 2010, at 13:01, Daniel Alexander Smith wrote:
> FYI my initial use case is to archive old project raw data onto it,  
> so I'd probably use RAID1 and get 2TB of usable space.

RAID 1 using four drives of identical model and age installed in a  
single unit for the purpose of write-once-then-lock-away archiving  
sounds like a complete waste of storage/money to me. One little  
building fire and it's all gone.

Buy a couple of different 2TB externals (given ebuyer, probably  
looking at ~£200 total) and stick them as far away from each-other as  
practicality allows instead?

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