📎 AI Summary:
The thread discusses the practical differences between using two external USB drives as RAID 1 versus a mirrored Storage Space. The original poster asks which approach is preferred and why, seeking clarification. A respondent explains that both options have similar resource usage and performance, but hardware RAID typically offers superior performance, while mirroring primarily enhances data availability.
The thread discusses the practical differences between using two external USB drives as RAID 1 versus a mirrored Storage Space. The original poster asks which approach is preferred and why, seeking clarification. A respondent explains that both options have similar resource usage and performance, but hardware RAID typically offers superior performance, while mirroring primarily enhances data availability.
Solution
The resource usage (CPU/memory) and performance are going to be about the same. If you can install one a hardware raid card will outperform both options. In general though a mirror isn't going to increase performance only data availability
