Yes, Sandor I agree with what you say about the manufacturing "shell game" . I am saving the RAID system for my server if? when ?I get one. Thanks On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, sandor ferenczy <sandorferenczy@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > frthere are only a couple manufacturers of drive mechanism manufacturers an > even less manufacturers of chipsets (the bit that adapts an internal SATA > drive to USB/FireWire/eSATA) > > laCie, iomega, etc just make the pretty case. > > as for recommendations, I would highly recommend you get something with > RAID - preferably RAID 5 - you want constant redundancy in case of failure. > > -sandor > > On May 6, 2011, at 11:28 AM, robert santora <rbsantora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > To All > > > > It's time to get some external hard drives for the HRA2. Heidelberg > recommended Io mega 2 TB fire wires. I tend to rely on Lacie. Any strong > opinions on the comparisons or recommendations of another manufacturer? > >