[olug] DVD Ripping

[Phil Brutsche]

Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> what about raid5 + spare, then haul the spare off to the bank/work/other 
> offsite every couple months

No offense but I think you need to read up on your RAID levels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

What you suggest will only work for a RAID1 (aka mirrored) drive set. In
a any RAID5 setup no one drive will contain enough data to reconstruct
the contents of the RAID set.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us