Peter Humphrey wrote:
I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what benefits would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above? And, in particular, what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?
I have one 750Gb Samsung drive that I have had at least a year. So far, no problems and it is pretty fast. It does what it is supposed to for a 3Gbs/sec drive. That said, it may die next week. We all know how this works. They work just fine until they die, usually with no warning or very little warning.
I might also add, I have a UPS and surge protection coming from the wall, plus surge and voltage protection built into the UPS. I have yet to have a drive die so maybe all that does help. I dunno.
I have several Western Digital drives, no problems so far although I don't like the green ones to much.
Just my $0.02 worth. Dale :-) :-)
