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Ok i need a little help or input on what you would do in this situation. Currently I have a about 700gigs of data that is important to me that i would like to backup. At the moment i just do incremental updates from one drive to another drive. For example i have about 300 gigs of data that i back up to another 300 drive, then i have a 400 gig drive that i back up to another drive. Well i am tired of having to do this and just want a simple solution like raid 1 so that all i have to do is copy over the data and be done with it. Now here is my problem all of my drives are smaller. For example:
2x 200gig sata
1x 400gig sata
2x 300gig ide
1x 500gig sata
Now is there a way to implement these to work with some sort of data redundancy so that if a drive would fail all that i would have to do is toss in a new drive? Is raid 5 what i am looking for? I would also like the system to act as a NAS system. I have an extra system that does raid 0, raid 1, raid 0+1, raid 5, and jbod from the motherboard. Is this what i want to use or should i just buy a pre-built nas unit that does raid 1 then buy another 500 gig drive and raid the two and then just keep mirroring my others? I am just trying to keep this as cheap as possible and use what i have. I just hate having all these drives, the easiest would be just buy 2x 750gig drives and raid 1 them but they are kinda expensive at the moment. Any thoughts or ideas? What would you do in this situation?
2x 200gig sata
1x 400gig sata
2x 300gig ide
1x 500gig sata
Now is there a way to implement these to work with some sort of data redundancy so that if a drive would fail all that i would have to do is toss in a new drive? Is raid 5 what i am looking for? I would also like the system to act as a NAS system. I have an extra system that does raid 0, raid 1, raid 0+1, raid 5, and jbod from the motherboard. Is this what i want to use or should i just buy a pre-built nas unit that does raid 1 then buy another 500 gig drive and raid the two and then just keep mirroring my others? I am just trying to keep this as cheap as possible and use what i have. I just hate having all these drives, the easiest would be just buy 2x 750gig drives and raid 1 them but they are kinda expensive at the moment. Any thoughts or ideas? What would you do in this situation?