On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, smallnow <small...@gmail.com> wrote: > Get the best of both worlds with raid 5. > Personally, I do raid 0 and I agree with you on raid redundancy not being > very useful. Backup ftw. I cycle out my hard drives every year or two and > make the old ones be backups, I've only ever had the backups die. > > - Ian
Hmm. I grew up with very expensive hard drives, and never thought of this. Time to rethink. My first Unix hard drive replacement was a 20MB drive replacing 10MB and it cost $600 (1985 dollars) plus the old drive. Circa 1985. You didn't do that too often on a home system. Now that I'm seeing 1,000,000 MB eSATAs for under $100 this is starting to make sense. Thanks for the idea. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
