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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[nikolasco.livejournal.com]

Not just the same physical location, but also the drivers are from same manufacturer and bought at the same time from the same place... It jus seems likely that once one gives up due to foo, they all will.

At home, I've always tried to have enough slots to have completely empty ones between drives.