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

[juliet]

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...

[skibbley.livejournal.com]

You may also wish to consider RAID6 - our bigger systems use that.