It depends on how much storage space you need, Mike. But, almost certainly, yes. Raid is available at low cost these days (because the brains for doing it is being built into standard server hardware).


The bigger decisions will revolve around how much storage, what technology to use (fibre channel, external storage arrays, ...)

 

Nothing fancy, and not a ton of storage needed, mainly going to be running a Filemaker solution..the thing that scares me is Filemaker is not a transactional DB, so I want lots of redundancy. I was thinking (2, or3) 500 gig drives in the empty bays.

 

RAID (if used properly) has the advantage that a single drive failure will not lose or corrupt data, Mike. That's the coolness of it. Later, when you get a fixed drive, you can toss it in and the drive will be brought back into the RAID set.

Yup, redundancy is a good idea.

 

So in essence being redundant is a good thing...redundancy is good! Redundantly speaking of course.


RAID it is then!

 

 

 

Nothing like a massive backup.

 

Get a SAN.

 

Nothing a good mantie RAID cant clear!

 

Thank yousan!

Gonna go with this and fill the 4 empty bays with big drives and RAID them.
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