Looking for new thunderbolt disk

I'm in the market for a new Thunderbolt external disk solution.

Currently I'm running on a Macbook Pro 15", Quad Core i7, 2.6Ghz, with an internal 512GB SSD. I have a Thunderbolt LaCie Little Big Disk 2TB.

My main backup is a Drobo 5N (NAS), which I have my machine Time Machine to. Additionally, I have another G-Tech RAID 8TB Thunderbolt Disk to back up all my data occasionally and take off site.

Unfortunately the Little Big Disk was getting full in a RAID 1 mirror setup (it uses 2 1TB laptop disks). So it's now running at 2TB capacity, but in RAID 0 (striped). It works, it's fairly quick, but I don't really love RAID 0 (although I do have a decent backup strategy).

The other huge problem with the Little Big DIsk is NOISE. That little box is the loudest thing on my desk, it's really gotten annoying.

I was considering just picking up 4TB G-Tech RAID, this would give me either 4TB in RAID 0 mode, or 2TB in RAID 1.

I would also consider spending some more money and picking up something with 4-6 disks in it, and massive performance. The LaCie 5-Big looks nice, but it doesn't support RAID-5. I'm not sure I want JBOD.

Pegasus R6 looks nice as well, but it's very expensive and the review I read said it was quite noisy.

With the new Mac Pro I also wonder it TB2 devices are around the corner... but given the existing devices can't touch the 10Gbps of TB1, it might not be necessary.

Thoughts? Anyone own something like this that can make a suggestion?

Just that RAID 0 is the RAID that just isn't. There isn't any R for Redundant in RAID 0. So it is basically RAID TIMES 0 - and x * 0 = 0.

Stripe-sets should be avoided unless used for work disks where the extra speed is required.

Don't worry about TB2 - few RAID solutions except very expensive, professional, solutions are even close to the link transfer capacity.

pwm2 wrote in post #16395283
Just that RAID 0 is the RAID that just isn't. There isn't any R for Redundant in RAID 0. So it is basically RAID TIMES 0 - and x * 0 = 0.

Stripe-sets should be avoided unless used for work disks where the extra speed is required.

Don't worry about TB2 - few RAID solutions except very expensive, professional, solutions are even close to the link transfer capacity.

Well it's a redundant extra failure

Still not sure which solution to go with. Seems kind of silly to use the GTech and just mirror the disks. I could break them out into individual 2TB volumes as well I guess.

Ryan0751 wrote in post #16395227
I'm in the market for a new Thunderbolt external disk solution.

Look here.

Hen3Ry wrote in post #16395406
Look here.

That Lacie eSATA option is very interesting and one I hadn't thought of. I forgot about OWC... Doh! Thanks!

I own the 4TB Western Digital Thunderbolt Duo. To me, it was the best bang for the buck, especially since they have a great reputation.

I use LaCie 2Big 6TB running in RAID 1 (3TB mirrored) with a 3TB Time Capsule doing backups of internal SSD and external LaCie set.

I went with the G-Tech RAID 4TB. So far I kept it in the RAID 0 setup for speed, it's time machine backed up to a Drobo 5N, so risk is minimal.

Getting around 350MB/s read/write.