On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:22 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > 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 You don't need RAID10 for backups. RAID6 should suffice. -Ross