Lots of storage

[ciphergoth]

If I buy one of these: and five of these:

and stick it all together using Linux software RAID, will that work as a relatively cheap (£370) 2TB RAID-5 storage array?

Will it be very noisy, and if so, should I be looking at getting one of these too so I can stick it in another room?



As you might imagine, I'm giving the whole question of backups a lot of thought at the moment...

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[skx.livejournal.com]

The bolting the enclosure might be a good plan, but I'd assume it would still be easy to remove the actual drives from there..

If you keep an eye upon the status, via mdadm, then RAID-5 should be just fine. I'm always a little paranoid when it comes to my data!