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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 63570" data-attributes="member: 9521">FYI - the following is only my opinion on the subject The problem I have with RAID systems is this - All the RAID hard drives are installed at the same time, hence they'll all be susceptible to failing at approximately the same time. As a result, the only RAID systems that I would consider &quot;safe&quot; are systems made of SSD's and at the moment they're too pricey to make sense. Soon they will be ubiquitous and priced much closer to a standard hard drive. Until then, I would stick with the tried and true method of external hard disk and cloud back up systems. I realize that using back up drives is a pain, however, it seems to me that your data is much safer since all drives except solid state have a limited number of spins on them and since you're only turning your back up drives on when you back up your files, chances are they'll last much longer than a RAID drive that is constantly spinning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 63570, member: 9521"] FYI - the following is only my opinion on the subject The problem I have with RAID systems is this - All the RAID hard drives are installed at the same time, hence they'll all be susceptible to failing at approximately the same time. As a result, the only RAID systems that I would consider "safe" are systems made of SSD's and at the moment they're too pricey to make sense. Soon they will be ubiquitous and priced much closer to a standard hard drive. Until then, I would stick with the tried and true method of external hard disk and cloud back up systems. I realize that using back up drives is a pain, however, it seems to me that your data is much safer since all drives except solid state have a limited number of spins on them and since you're only turning your back up drives on when you back up your files, chances are they'll last much longer than a RAID drive that is constantly spinning. [/QUOTE]

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