On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 03:44:26PM -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
So ask yourself: in a home server, just what does RAID give me? Are
you really bottlenecked for speed in a way that RAID will improve? Perhaps RAID can help with High Availability (and perhaps not) -- is that what you are hoping for? Just don't think of it as backup. --
Hmm, I was looking at it more as a High Availability than backup. I already have a 2TB external disk for backup. at least my experience so far with the current Caviar Blue 750G has been good (5+ years, no problems), The replacement is a Caviar Red so in theory it should be more reliable, maybe I can get away by not using a RAID ( dang, I really wanted to practice with one).
I'm not sure Red is more reliable than Black. The Black drives have 5 yr warranties, whereas the Red drives have 3 yrs.