http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/ Engadget Comments for Planex PL-35U2BS enclosure will combine two 500GB drives to 1TB http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/Nov 7th 2006 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/Nov 6th 2006 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/
I don't know about the USB thing.

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so, the enclosure is for idiots who want a portable storage server.]]>Nov 6th 2006 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/Nov 6th 2006 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/Nov 6th 2006 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/Nov 6th 2006 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/Nov 6th 2006 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/
Firstly, SATA-II is 3gbps (gigabits per second), not 3GB/s (gigabytes per second). You just made it sound 8 times as fast.

Second, the bottleneck is the drive read speed, not USB. Only WD Raptors can push out SATA-I speed and no conventional HDD is going to do more than that (roll on the mass adoption of flash hard drives).

Thirdly, striping two drives doubles the chance of a failure, although that's probably obvious to you.

The only thing left is to ensure that it doesn't spin down the disks while they aren't being used because that could result in higher latencies when you start using them again.]]>Nov 6th 2006 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/planex-pl-35u2bs-enclosure-will-combine-two-500gb-drives-to-1tb/
I've got a USB version of this (link below), which has lasted quite some time now.

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Didn't mean to create a monster. I was just trying to be humble.]]>Nov 6th 2006 3:56PM