f8lee wrote:
Bill, you're really asking two things here ... if the OWC drive is good and should you still use Superduper to make off-site backups ( by which I assume you mean a complete copy of the drive on external drive that you remove from your place and store elsewhere ).
That said, my answer is yes to both questions. I have an OWC Maximus RAID drive ( in fact, I outgrew my original 2 TB drive and replaced it with a 6 TB, now use the first one for Time Machine). It is on this external drive that I store all of my image files for use with Lightroom.
However, that drive stays on my desktop-I do not move it out of the house. I use Superduper with other (non-RAID) drives to copy my desktop machine and take those copies to the bank vault. If you are contemplating using the RAID drive with Superduper to then take it offsite for safety, I do not believe you will find any benefit to using RAID. You would probably be better served by using a standard external drive, portable or not, with superduper - better still, use two of them in rotation so that wild one sits in the bank vault the other is on your desk getting the latest back up.
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Thanks, I was thinking of using the QWC Maximus to do Time Machine backups of my MBP since I recently had a SD card go bad - could see pictures in camera but could not import them to MBP on either of the two MBP I have access too - and I know it is more likely that an external drive would fail than a SD card. I intended to replace my external Time Machine drive with the Maximus. I use Super Duper to make mirrored images of the HD in my MBP and store one off site, periodically switching it with the one I have at home.
I think the Maximus / Time Machine option will give me the security I'm looking for. Keep LR files on the MBP so I should have at least 2 unique copies even if one external drive fails, depending on which drive fails.