On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 03:44:26PM -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > So ask yourself: in a home server, just what does RAID give me? Are > > you really bottlenecked for speed in a way that RAID will improve? > > Perhaps RAID can help with High Availability (and perhaps not) -- is > > that what you are hoping for? Just don't think of it as backup. > > -- > > > > Hmm, I was looking at it more as a High Availability than backup. I already > have a 2TB external disk for backup. > at least my experience so far with the current Caviar Blue 750G has been > good (5+ years, no problems), The replacement is a Caviar Red so in theory > it should be more reliable, maybe I can get away by not using a RAID ( > dang, I really wanted to practice with one). I'm not sure Red is more reliable than Black. The Black drives have 5 yr warranties, whereas the Red drives have 3 yrs. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org