RE: Cheapest way to acheive RAID5 ?

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

Indestructible no, but it should be more resilient? Obviously with two
disks failing at the same time you're stuffed but you shouldn't lose the
lot from a single failure, should you?
I guess buying n+1 disks initially will then give you an spare for
instant replacement on failure of the first drive and good spares
management would mean you'd then buy a new spare to replace the one
you've just installed (and hope you don't get another failure 'til it's
delivered).

Have I interpreted that right?

Cheers,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LeeUKHA
>
> I think there's some confusion here, just because it's RAID5
> doesn't mean it's indestructible...
> ...you still need to back it up if you can't replace the data...
>
> Lee
>
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > How do you back-up your data if you're not using a RAID solution
?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonathan @ Home
> > >
> > > Best option might be to buy a tower case and build yourself
a file

> > > server, it is what me and my fellow geeks do.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jonathan (who got burgled at the weekend and is now fitting
an
> > > alarm)