Something to consider with your own RAID setup is that the controller can act as a single point of failure, AND when (if) it goes, it can take the drives with it. This is the painful voice of 1/4TB of lost data speaking to you from the grave...
I have now gone with a home DLT backup system using scheduled rotational backups to tape so that I can avoid being so miserable (hopefully) once again in the future.
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Something to consider with your own RAID setup is that the controller can act as a single point of failure, AND when (if) it goes, it can take the drives with it. This is the painful voice of 1/4TB of lost data speaking to you from the grave...
I have now gone with a home DLT backup system using scheduled rotational backups to tape so that I can avoid being so miserable (hopefully) once again in the future.