So as some of you may know from an earlier blog of mine, I am planning on purchasing a large external storage device some time in the near future.

The device I mentioned I was looking at, the sexy dual-drive 6 TB G-RAID, unfortunately only supports RAID 0, as I have come to find out. So it's no longer an option for me.

2-drive options with the level of capacity I want for RAID 1 are slim, and none of them seem too appealing. So instead I'm thinking of buying a 4-bay RAID enclosure, throwing four 2 TB drives in it and putting them in RAID 5, and call it a day. I would get approximately 6 TB of useable space, versus the 3 I was hoping to get with the G-RAID in RAID 1. A pretty nice improvement. In addition, I would get some performance benefits too, instead of just getting additional protection for my data. The only drawback really is that i'll end up with a device that's fairly large. But ultimately, I've decided that it's not TOO large, and that the benefits far outweigh this concern. And it actually costs less than the G-RAID would, even with a spare 5th drive just in case one dies on me.

Incredible.