quiet Raid 1 external drives

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Hi all

Any thoughts on quiet raid1 external USB2 or Firewire800 external drives, something that is same-room-quiet perhaps. I'm figuring out potential layouts and drive noise is a significant issue. Want Raid 1 (mirroring) for safety.  

Thanks for creating this forum

cheers

Gavin 

 

[Anonymous]

We use a couple of networked Lacie 2big at work and they've been faultless and quiet running 24/7 for over a year. People dislike Lacie because of the forum horror stories but that's only because there are so many of them out there. At home I've got a Thecus N5200 which I haven't seen in a few of months due to being in my cupboard.

 

[Anonymous]

hmm networked is an idea, I'd been looking at local firewire 800 drives to allow for shared use as a photograph store too,

Lightroom is hard on disks, more thought and opinions required

cheers

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[John Duncan]

Question - how does Lightroom manage images? I use Aperture (same idea obv) and storing the library on mirrored external drives is a pain, since the Aperture Library contains the photos as well as the edits - I had to make all the files "referenced" instead of "managed", so that the files were external and the library metadata was backed up separate from the images.

I only ask since what you're suggesting may take you down a road you may not want to go down. You could search "NAS Lightroom" on dpreview to see if there are any gotchas.....

 

[Anonymous]

Answering my own question, the Lacie two big triple seems to be quiet if you need a local drive

LaCie 2big Triple (2TB) Review and User Opinions - Testing and ...

http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/re...2big-triple-2tb-review-testing-and-conclusion@johnduncan with Lightroom you can archive images to a remote disk, it is quite flexible in that regard and this is improved in version 2

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[Anonymous]

zzgavin:
Answering my own question

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Excuse em moi? I like to think I there somewhere around 66% with the 2big.

 

[Anonymous]

oops sorry octopo

ÿstarted looking on google for quiet drives, found that review and forgot you'd mentioned them already

thanks

gavinÿ