Craig White wrote: > agreed but I am not a fan of RAID-5 any more because it is so slow. > Suggest RAID 10/0+1 > generally, I'd agree, but for bulk storage like a backup server, the drive count gets kind of higher. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/936/SC936E1-R900.cfm would be the way to go then. I'd probably use one raid1 of 2 drives for the OS and software, then 12 as a raid 0+1 and 1-2 hot spares