On Jan 9, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Justin Kremer wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote:
> The most
> stressful time in a RAID drive's life is usually a rebuild.  That's
> when you're likely to find that OTHER drive problem that didn't cause
> the array to fail initially. 


+1 (and then some) if you're going to go RAID.

That said, I ended up giving up on RAID.  I use 1.5T volumes in the backup server and each is larger or equal to the backup target.  KISS.  

Thomas