Quote Originally Posted by Devils Horse View Post
Next question. Just 3 spindles or a whole shelf of them?

Most obvious question. Why? If redundancy keeps you awake at night, why not just run 2 drives and RAID 0?

I'm guessing you bought a server class machine for home use. That officially makes you a geek, dude.

Next time I bother with the home PC, I'm going solid state HD like my work laptop has. Burning fast with no moving parts.
* I built my server class machine at home..........I use a LSI Hardware Raid Controller. I also have one of them as a backup controller, still in the box. It has updated bios, and drivers IN the box for Linux, Centos, Windows 7, 8, 10....Just in case.

* Hardware Raid 5 with 5 500gb solid state Samsung 840's.

* Hardware Raid 5 simply because it is FAST, and using HW controller, means if I lose the motherboard, I'm not losing the raid, and I can also dual boot linux or windows or windows 10, or bootable thumbdrive centos, etc, etc, etc, and still see the raid controller. REALLY important for me. .

* Backed up to Raid 0 on another box.

* I should tell you about my software raid 5 array of thumbdrives.....that was fun .

* Redundancy doesn't keep me up at night. But I know I will not lose stuff I've been keeping for 10-20 years. . Digital Pics, Videos, etc, etc.

Hey, I'm a DBA, I live and breathe backups .

Later,

geo