Small Home server - HDD/SDD

[Suvayu Ali]

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.

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