External drives into RAID

[giyad]

Ok, this may be a stupid question, but I'll never know until I ask ...

I have two identical external hard drives. They are both MicroNet PlatinumXL's, which are 500GB Firewire 800 drives. They have 2 Firewire 800 ports and one 6 pin Firewiree 400 port.

I wanted to set them up as a RAID 1, would that be possible? If its not, is there any other way to mirror the drives? If not, does anyone want to buy one hehe?

 

[kimsland]

Yes you just need an external raid controller
Or a PCI card allowing external raid
Not sure which card or device is best, they seem to range in price significantly

 

[giyad]

Yes you just need an external raid controller
Or a PCI card allowing external raid
Not sure which card or device is best, they seem to range in price significantly

Thanks! How would that work though? I'm not sure how I would connect the drives to the controller, or is the one you linked just an example?

 

[kimsland]

Just a real example
I haven't actually done it !