I am currently in a rut, deciding to go with the Drobo or the WD My Book Studio Edition II.
I am a photographer who uses both film and digital, my plan is as follows:
Purchase two My Book Studio Edition II drives, one designated for film scans, the other for digial files. I don’t plan on editing the files off the harddrive, firstly off the computer and then off they go onto the My Book.
Some questions I have:
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Say I got the 2TB (x2 1 TB drives), am I able to store files on one and have it mirrored on the other?
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After that 1TB drive is full, am I able to just swap that only one drive out and tuck it away, purchase another 1TB drive and continue to store on that and have the same 2nd drive mirroring?
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Is this a terrible idea? I am open to suggestions, this was so far the only type of work flow I found that is simple and effective. Seems to allow me to have a back up which gets stored away and while the drive is in the case, it is being mirrored.
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Also, I remember asking about if it came up as two drives and it doesn’t. Is there a way to partition it or would having it set to mirror automatically show me how much space I have left on the 1TB drive?