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SOFTRAID XT LITE INSTALL
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If you’ll be using these enclosures for other types of workflow, the faster SSDs may be a better choice.

If you’ll be using this setup only for backup, hard drives may be an economical choice, providing the largest amount of storage space at a low price.

SOFTRAID XT LITE INSTALL

Types of Drives to Install in an EnclosureĪll of our suggested enclosures will accept standard rotational hard drives or SATA-based SSDs.

Tech 101: Choosing an External Enclosure to Meet Your Storage Needs.

This quad enclosure makes use of Thunderbolt 3 to provide the highest sustained performance of our suggested enclosures for backup. It makes use of SoftRAID XT Lite, and supports RAID 0, 1, and JBOD. OWC ThunderBay 4: A quad-bay enclosure that supports 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch drives with no adapters needed. (The ThunderBay 4 is the fastest of our suggested enclosures, accommodating up to four drives and connecting with Thunderbolt 3.) This enclosure is also available with an advanced version of SoftRAID that adds support for RAID 4, 5, and RAID 1+0. This enclosure uses USB-C 3.1 Gen 2, providing speeds up to 10Gb/s. It comes with SoftRAID XT Lite, supporting RAID 0, 1, JBOD.

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OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad: This quad-bay enclosure works with both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch SATA-based drives, with no adapters needed. (The Mercury Elite Pro Quad can house up to four drives, and connects using USB 3.1 Gen 2.) Its small size and use of USB 3.1 Gen 2 connections make it a great choice for backups, as well as image or music libraries. The enclosure makes use of USB-C 3.1 Gen 2, providing speeds up to 10 Gb/s. It makes use of hardware-based RAID that supports RAID 0, 1, SPAN, and Independent drive modes. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini: This dual-bay enclosure is designed to accept 2.5-inch drives, the same size used for most laptop drives as well as SATA-based SSDs. (The Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini houses two storage devices in the smallest of our suggested enclosures.) With so many multi-bay drive enclosures available, you may want to look at the following as good examples of enclosures to consider for this backup system. Can be used for multiple tasks, such as backups, media libraries, bulk storage, and media editing.Many multi-bay enclosures support various RAID types.Available with 2, 4, or 6 drive bays, or even more.

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A single connection to your Mac leaves more ports available for other uses.

Fewer power bricks and cords to clutter up your work area.

But using multi-bay enclosures has a few advantages: You can successfully make use of multiple single drive enclosures and achieve equivalent results. Let me be clear: a multi-drive backup system doesn’t have to be built from multi-bay enclosures. Using External Enclosures with Two or More Bays Which brings us to this week’s Rocket Yard guide: Use Multi-Bay Enclosures for Better Backups Using Time Machine and a cloned startup drive is such a powerful backup system that it’s the basis for all of the backups in our home and office environments. It can also take some of the tension out of what can be a very stressful time. It lets you continue to work while you order a replacement storage device for the volume that failed. Cloning can let you get back up and running in the time it takes to restart your Mac. That’s one of the reasons I recommend using a second backup strategy, based around cloning the data on your startup drive. The process of recovering the information from a Time Machine drive can be long and arduous, and having to wait a few hours to get back to work can really throw a monkey wrench into your schedule. That can be invaluable when you need to know what was in a document a few versions back, or even a few years back.īut there are a few things Time Machine doesn’t do well, such as restoring all of the data on a failing startup drive. Time Machine has a lot going for it, including the ability to recover older versions of a file from the backup device. Pick a drive to use for your backups, turn on Time Machine, and you have a basic backup system in place with very little effort. Backing up your Mac can be a very easy process.