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19th August 2008, 12:35 PM
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May turn out to be a stupid question but can you create a Raid array of external USB hard drives?
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19th August 2008, 02:54 PM
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I don't believe you can. It wouldn't be a very good idea to do anyhow as usb hard drives in enclosures tend to get very hot if they are used continually. They are really only designed for occasional use.
Hope that helps. 
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19th August 2008, 04:20 PM
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19th August 2008, 04:57 PM
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The other alternative is to get one already built
I like Acer stuff and will probably get one of these for one of my clients Hard Drives - Network Attached Storage (NAS) & Raid Backup - Ebuyer
cheers
Albert
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19th August 2008, 06:04 PM
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I've got 2 500GB WD external hard drives and its a mac mini so I have no PCI slots for any cards.
I think I'll store all my files on one and have time machine make hourly backups like it does now but to back up the other hard drive as well. So I'll have my mac HD and External HD 1 backed up on External HD 2. Okay hourly backups arnt as good as instant but I suppose RAID over usb with be a drain on the CPU anyway.
Is there any way to install an OS on an external HD?
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19th August 2008, 06:14 PM
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Some motherboards will allow you to set up a boot from an external drive - or even a flash drive.
Worth a fiddle in the boot priority settings if you have them
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19th August 2008, 06:26 PM
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On my old PC I could set the motherboard to boot from USB but when installing XP windows didn't see USB drives.
I'm tring to do it using Mac's bootcamp software which only seems to let me use internal drives. Dam..
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19th August 2008, 07:15 PM
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This option has to be at motherboard level - before you load the operating system.
To boot from a flash drive you have to be able to allocate a drive letter to it at boot as otherwise the thing will lool for the MBR on C:\
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