Portable raid 1 hdd?

Hi
I'm looking for a portable raid 1 (or similar mirrored) harddrive solution, with a capacity of at least 200Gb. Can anybody help me out?
The best I've found is g-tech g-raid mini. The problem is it only does raid 0.
Any suggestions very welcome.
thanks.

aaronbopper wrote:
Hmm.
The reason I'm after raid 1, is i need to edit on the go and I'm worried about a drive failing. I don't particularly want to, or have the time to recapture.
There must be other people in the same boat.
Hmm.
Editing on the go has its own peculiar risks. Losing an external drive would be high in both probability and on the level of an OMG! total disaster.
Losing the computer, spilling coffee on it, dropping it, all that stuff.
I strongly advise you draw up a Risk Assessment document and get someone to help you objectively evaluate your real and imagined risks and their costs in terms of time, project schedule and real money.
I force my clients to do this often (at my boss's urging) and, by the time they look at their project's risks and costs and rewards, the realworld indications are quite surprising. Not always, though, and sometimes we just do whatever the heck they want anyway.
bogiesan

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