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I don't know what your storage needs are, but here's what I did. I got an OWC Mercury Elite Pro enclosure with two 3TB drives, and set it up in RAID-1. I was doing the double storage thing on my own, but I prefer the RAID-1 as there is an immediate indication of a non-functional drive, so I can swap out the bad one for a good one which is then repopulated.
In my case I got the enclosure with eSATA ports and a Lacie 2x eSATA to ThunderBolt adapter, so that I can use just one TB port on my MBP and keep the USB3 ports for other peripherals. It's recognized as one volume, and is a software RAID-1 that was easy to set up.
I've also got a USB3 On The Go Pro from OWC with 1TB 7200rpm drive. I use this for backup while traveling, keeping my photos on the cards and backed up to the drive.
I'm able to work off of either drive setup in Lightroom 5, and this is on a 13" rMBP with 256GB SSD and 8GB ram, i5 processor. I do this for fun, and my setup is probably insufficient for professional workflows, especially where there is video involved, but it works for me.
Edit:
The dual drive enclosure makes a fair amount of fan noise, but I guess that cooler drives are less likely to fail. The portable drive is essentially noiseless, and has a nice exposed heat sink on the bottom with tiny rubber feet to keep it off the surface, and acrylic casing elsewhere.
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