Best Buy has the Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB External USB External Hard Drive WDBACW0030HBK-NESN for $150 with in-store pickup or $6 shipping to home. Features a USB 3.0 interface, data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps, and automatic backup.
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Wow, that's a whole, hecka, lotsa, data to lose in one shot.
tell me about it, 3 world books, 3 replaced world books... warranty is easy, but losing all that data is no fun... But at these prices you can raid 0 um!
If you "raid 0 um" then you'll just lose 6 TB when either one breaks. Twice the data loss, double the failure rate.
Is there any kind of weird partition on these that prevent them from being taken apart and thrown into my rig?
Raid1 FOREVER!
#2, how do you RAID an USB drive?
I suspect #1 meant RAID1 not 0.
#4, no, but even if there were some odd partitioning on a drive you can just delete that and create a new one.
#5, I'd imagine there is some way to do it logically rather than hardware controlled through 'nix, or a RAID1 in windows server or hacked desktop ed., but I feel it's a bad idea, if failure reduction is important there should be separate redundant backups IF using USB... which pretty much negates the benefits of RAID. USB is too fragile/easily corrupted volumes to be considered a serious backup option otherwise.