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Careful here. If you have two drives in a raid you will NOT have redundency. You can mirror them but that yields half the storage. You can stripe them but if one goes you lose everything.

If you add a third drive you can go raid 5, if one of the 3 drives fail you do not lose data.

OSX has a great soft RAID controller built into it. Unless you are doing high end video editing where the data rate is critical you do not need a hardware RAID controller.

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