Seagate first with 1.5TB hard drives

[Saracen]

I agree, I used to use 2x 320GB drives but if one died (which at one time one did) I lost a lot of things but it wasn't as bad as loosing 750GB or more. Currently I'm running 2x 750GB F1's in a mirror array mostly for that reason, loosing 750GB of stuff would be really nasty, 1.5TB would be /slitwrists.

RAID is not a sensible substitute for a good backup system, as there are too many things that will take down both drives in the array simultaneously, including controller failure, power supply problems and even theft.

RAID gives you a degree of backup confidence, but only against a drive failure. To protect against the other issues you need backups, and if you have backups to protect against the other risks, you are protected against drive failure without needing RAID.

There are some performance advantages to some forms of RAID, but mainly, it's about resilience and uptime, not backup.

[Funkstar]

Has Zak been in here drooling all over this yet?

If so, someone has done a pretty good job of cleaning the stains