Definitely agreed re RAID5 & a hotspare. Especially given that it is not uncommon IME for more than one drive to fail at close to the same time (for fairly obvious reasons given that you've bought 'em all at the same time).
I'd certainly recommend either RAID5 + hotspare or mirror-RAID over stripe-RAID, because even if it is only backup, sod's law says...
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Date: 2007-08-06 09:18 am (UTC)I'd certainly recommend either RAID5 + hotspare or mirror-RAID over stripe-RAID, because even if it is only backup, sod's law says...