I can see the point Mark is making - if the typical read error rate of a large capacity drive is inevitably higher than the error rate that a RAID array can cope with rebuilding from, you're doomed to fail....
Mine's basically a media server for TV/music/films that happens to maintain backups of my desktop and laptop, so there's nothing critical on there. I guess RAID 5 with a load more discs reduces the chances of a failed drive causing a failed rebuild as the missing data may be on another drive?
Just replaced the desktop HDD with a 4TB WD Black due to running short of space! Elsawin takes up a shed load....
At some point I really should sort out a cloud based/off site backup option, given a house fire would lose us everything digital!
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