I finally broke down and bought the Guardian Maximus from NewerTech a few weeks ago. (Thinking that the price would go down more on it, but for 6months it did not). Once I got the Guardian Maximus I was slightly confused on the size of it because it was very small, and I as under the impression that it was going to be this big external enclosure. From the pictures on NewerTech”s site, it looks like it is going to be big, but it is almost acutal size and when reading closer the measurements tell the truth.
So far so good. I had a few issues with the initial setup because one of the harddrives I got for it was DOA and ordered a replacement and the model numbers did not match 100% and the performance was a bit touchy. After last night, I have installed 2 1TB drives that are exactly the same and the rebuild process began. Slow, but understandable because it was rebuilding the 1TB drive block for block (manual reads a few hours to over night for rebuild process).
This morning I checked to see if everything was working as planned and yes, the rebuild process was completed and all my data as back. Before I started the rebuild process I also moved everything to a secondary drive so that if the rebuild process did fail, I would still have a back up.
So far so go. The only thing that I have against it right now is that the fan in the enclosure is too loud, but it needs to keep the 2 drives and the electronics cool.