On Jan 9, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Justin Kremer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > The most > stressful time in a RAID drive's life is usually a rebuild. That's > when you're likely to find that OTHER drive problem that didn't cause > the array to fail initially. +1 (and then some) if you're going to go RAID. That said, I ended up giving up on RAID. I use 1.5T volumes in the backup server and each is larger or equal to the backup target. KISS. Thomas