Recent content by ThePermster

Wow those drobos look cool, I'm gonna have to get me some monehs. Right, well now I'm considering not RAIDing, if I were to start using RAID I would just end up having to buy expansion bays and/or an enormous case in no time. So now I just need a backup solution. Problem is, about 750Gb of the...

Hrmmm well to save money then I guess RAID1 it is, I'm not too bothered about a performance increase anyway so no big deal. Question though, whilst this might turn out more cost effective and productive, it doesn't sound like it's gonna be space efficient, i.e. what do I do when I run out of...

Thanks for all the input guys, real useful. I get what is meant by RAID not being a backup now too but yeah that's essentially what I was expecting from RAID, nothing other than a contingency plan for the occasional and inevitable HDD failure and as fitz maintains that the possibility of a...

So I'm an absolute newcomer to RAID and I think I may have ended up down the wrong path in pursuing it in the first place. I've been looking into RAID 5 for my home desktop and I've come up against a multitude of conflicting information. On the one hand RAID 5 sounds awesome as I can stick my...