[Gllug] Source for quality 24/7-duty cycle SATA drives?

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz suggested tentatively:
> it is in the very nature of harddrives to fail from time to time. My guess 
> would be to get twice as much HDs and put them in Raid1

Unless you're expecting many disks to fail at the same time, or have trouble
sourcing spare drives, RAID-5 should do. (At least, it has for me.)

Of course if you lose a drive, back up, in case you *do* lose another drive
while you're adding the new one (or during resync).

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