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...

Comments

[meta.ath0.com (from livejournal.com)]

For the stuff you really care about, you might want to consider backing up to Amazon S3 at a cost of around 15 ¢ per GB, e.g. via JetS3t.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. I was looking at brackup (as linked above), which can also write to S3 and which gpg-encrypts each backup.

[juliet]

There's also rsync.net who I've had an account with for a year or so for important personal stuff.

Other option for backup: Bacula (which is what I use at work; not entirely sure that it's worth it for a v small home setup, *but* it is very easily expandable if/when you get more machines).