RAID 5 protects against a single disk failure. You can recover all your data if a single disk breaks. The problem: once a disk breaks, there is another increasingly common failure lurking. And in 2009 it is highly certain it will find you.
Read http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 to find out what that is. -- Sharjeel http://www.sharjeel.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
