I've been happy with basic INTEL motherboard RAID 1 for home use ... given that my precious files are also backed up to the cloud.
Work in progress is on RAID 1 and I have an AKASA Duodock into which I can plug naked SATA disks. When the RAID array reports 'degraded' I simply copy the remaining operational drive to a cold spare. 'Tested' this out for real over the two hard disk failures I've had in the last 6 months.
However, many OEM PC's only support two drives so I'm thinking of repurposing two old machines in larger cases (6/8 drives) for virtualised storage. Interested to hear your comments on:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12695-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=75503&messageID=1468605&tag=content;col1
from your colleague Kusnetzky's thread.
That way bulk storage can be secured whilst (some) WIP can be on faster SSD's.
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