I use RAID 5 at home, primarily to avoid problems from failing hard drives. In the 6 years I've had a RAID 5 setup, I've had one drive fail. Just being able to swap in a new drive and have it running again was worth it for me.
I agree backups are also needed, preferably incremental backups with versioning. On 1/22/07, Michael Herger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. RAID is no substitute for backups. Your right. IMHO raid is overrated for most private uses. It's sold as if it were backup, but it's only about _availability_, reduced downtime etc. - which is quite unimportant to most home users. -- Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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