I am looking for an eSATA interface card and external 2-disk RAID enclosure for RAID 0. I already have the bare disks. Can someone suggest hardware that has worked well and reliably?

Thanks,

Peter

Did you try MacGurus? I have their Burly 4bay fan cooled sata enclosure, but they come in many sizes.

these days you should consider upgrading your motherboard as they have RAID support built in! far cheaper too!

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Here's a few:
CalDigit Element
MacGurus Burly RAID (I don't see RAID 0 tho')
OWC RAID box (no card needed)
G-Tech eS RAID

I have a great, 4 bay box from Sans Digital. It's eSata, expandable and was cheap. I threw away my Drobo, pulled out the drives and installed them in this and haven't looked back. Highly recommended.

For what it's worth, I ended up with a 2-drive Burly unit from MacGurus with a high speed card - I learned that most eSATA cards support the slower speed only and you need a faster and more expensive card to take full advantage of RAID 0. I have installed this in a new Dell Studio XPS with a 2.9 GHz i7 chip, 12 GB of ram, and a 1 TB internal RAID 0 for programs and the OS (Vista 64). I use the external drive for photo files and the Lightroom catalog. I must say that this system really flies compared with the old box!

Peter

I had a bad experience with eSATA. I used an eSATA drive for my data drive because I was upgrading the size so much, I thought it would be easier. When you use an external enclosure, you need to be sure that when you turn on/off your PC that this device is turned on first. I messed up that sequence once, and corrupted the whole drive.

From now on, I will only use external drives for backup purposes.

Here is a hybrid alternative for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817371028