Seconded. Speaking from my experience as a net admin to a small business, I see drives go much more often than they used to. Worse, they go without saying goodbye. Older drives tended to get flakey and start showing odd behaviors that would alert the user that things were going wrong. New drives seem to be fine today, completely unresponsive tomorrow morning.
RAID-1 has saved me from rebuilding 3 severs in the last year.
I'm seriously leaning towards a RAID-1 setup on my home server, just to help protect against drives dieing.
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