Originally Posted by
pendulum666
I'd just do RAID1 and then backup to an external machine/disk/nas. Gives you redundancy with the initial raid 1 which is cheap anyway, and then you have a proper backup solution as you would still need with raid5 anyway really. I dont see what you get more from out of raid5 really apart from obviously better percentage of the array used as storage the more disks you add. Its unecessary for home use a lot of the time when you consider the minimal gain for the expense.