We have been getting 1.5 TB Seagate drives at Directron lately. We have =

already had 1 failure out of 8 in about 3 months. Luckily, we make =

multiple copies every night.=20

We are thinking about making a Raid5 system with FreeNAS using 4 1.5 TB =

drives. Does anyone have experience with this?

----- Original Message -----=20

From: Alan Bourke=20

To: profox@leafe.com=20

Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:35 AM

Subject: RE: [NF] Seeking Suggestions for backup DVD storage...

On Sat, 23 May 2009 08:21 -0500, "Jerry Foote" <jerry@footegroup.com>

wrote:

> With the cost of large external drives, I have copied all of my =

backup's

> to

> a external drive, I now have instant access and complete portability =

with

> the discs off site

Yep, a couple of external 1TB drives would not be that much these days.

--=20

Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

[excessive quoting removed by server]