The Guardian MAXimus is a hard drive enclosure that sports FireWire 800 & 400, USB 3.0 & eSATA. But the real trick is inside. The MAXimus supports hardware RAID-1, which mirrors the two drives to protect against data loss. It comes with a 3-year warranty, and the option to pack as much as 4 TB of storage in the thin black case.…
The Western Digital My Book VelociRaptor Duo 2 TB RAID might just be the mother of all external storage devices. Inside, it packs two WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM drives that are user-selectable RAID 0/1 or JBOD. This means you can gain redundancy via mirroring or even more speed with striping. With dual Thunderbolt connectors, you can daisy chain this with other devices…
The LaCie 2Big Thunderbolt rig brings RAID mirroring, hot-swappable disks, and daisy chain convenience to your Thunderbolt port. Inside are two 2TB drives, providing up to 327MB/s I/O. Thunderbolt seems like magic. Being refurbished, this model is offered at 50% off — just $299, with an optional $27 1-year warranty That's pretty heard to beat. Thanks, Ian!