| If you’ve got a large amount of data to back up | | | | “mirrored” to the secondary back up is |
| or store then rather than looking at a standard Hard | | | | copied automatically. |
| Drive Enclosure into which you install one Hard Drive | | | | If you have critical data then using a Dual Bay |
| you could consider a Dual Bay RAID Enclosure. | | | | Enclosure with RAID 1 is a sensible option as it give |
| DUAL Bay enclosures as the name suggests support | | | | you a real “belt and braces” approach to the |
| two separate Hard Disk Drives, which significantly | | | | back up of your data. |
| increases the amount of data you can save | | | | RAID Hard Drive Enclosures illustrate just how far |
| externally. But Dual BAY RAID Enclosures go one | | | | these products have come over the years and |
| step further an provide you with a number of | | | | reflect how much data we are all now storing or |
| additional options: | | | | should be storing and backing up on a regular basis. |
| RAID 0: If you set up these enclosure to support | | | | Whilst there are complete Dual Drive and RAID |
| RAID 0 then both of the installed Hard Disk Drives | | | | enclosures already pre-packaged on the market with |
| will show up as one large “virtual” drive. So if | | | | the hard drives pre-installed an enclosure provides a |
| you install say two separate 1TB SATA Hard Drives | | | | much more cost effective solution. Once the |
| you’ll end up with a “virtual” drive of | | | | preserve of businesses Dual Bay Raid enclosures are |
| 2TB. | | | | now making their way into the home. As more |
| RAID 1: Alternatively if you set up both installed Hard | | | | people save digital photos, music, family films and |
| Disk Drives to utilize RAID 1 (Mirroring Mode) then | | | | movies to their PC this trend is only set to increase. |
| any data saved to the Drives in the enclosure will | | | | When shopping for RAID enclosures bear in mind |
| automatically be mirrored to the 2nd drive. In effect | | | | that most of them will only support the newer, |
| one of the hard drives in the enclosures becomes | | | | faster SATA Hard Disks Drives and not IDE, ATA or |
| the primary back up and the other becomes the | | | | PATA Hard Drives. |
| secondary back up. Data copied or | | | | |