LaCie Hard Drives + RAID?

[Dr. Mallori]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=LaCie_d2_quadra-_-22-154-299-_-Product

Ok, so ever since seeing these in a friend's studio I fell in love with them. They remind me of HAL 3000.

I wanted to get a pair to back-up all my music projects, but put them in RAID 1 Configuration (1:1 redundancy). However, Google has shown me a few people complaining that they failed on them in a year. Obviously, I'm not going to keep them running 24/7 so I think they'd probably last a lot longer than that.

My current Maxtor External HDD has been my only backup for ~5 years now, and makes like 2 clicks on start-up, but I think that is the little armature thing parking/unparking. Nevertheless, I'm paranoid and need another backup of all my sound libraries.

I'm a total n00b to RAID arrays, so:

1. What RAID controller would be the best bang-for-buck for my purposes (backing up large audio and project files)
2. If LaCies are in fact awful, are there any other enclosures out there that can have a similar style? I'm rather shallow when it comes to External HDDs and aesthetics matters to me.

*EDIT: Note that my computer is a bit old now and does NOT have a PCI-E slot, only PCI.

 

[Daishiknyte]

External HDDs are not meant to be raided. While it is possible, you will run into more headaches than it is worth. Extra power cables, cables running around to usb/other ports, etc. I'm going to assume your computer does not have any esata ports unless you choose to use an add-in card. The PCI would be quickly saturated.

Get a few of them to use individualy or run backups. I just don't see a raid of them working out.