[Deepsycher]

I have been saving up for a long time for this. I have four drives for storage but not in raid and some of which are over four years old and I am paranoid that they can fail at any time. They have been running non stop solid since 2003 and I am slowly copying the stuff onto dvd's.

Now I am planning to get four serial ata Seagate 750 gigabyte drives with a good raid controller to put them in raid 5. So three for storage and one for backup storage incase one drive fails or I could just have two with the other two for mirroring.

I am looking for something secure but I am unsure whether my stuff will be lost if two drives fail at the same time on striping them with one drive reserved as backup.

Any thoughts?

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 22 December 2006 - 10:57 PM