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

[damerell.livejournal.com]

RAID isn't backups. One fire, one burglary, one flood, one faithful recording by the RAID of an inadvertent rm -rf, and the whole thing's gone.

If I were you I'd get three big discs and enclosures for same with the money and arrange for at least one to be offsite at any given time.