That a nice project and all, too bad he's likely to have it go TU on him when his first drive fails. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working

That a nice project and all, too bad he's likely to have it go TU on him when his first drive fails. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-i... I would also be concerned with the single point of failure with his fan. If that seizes up for any reason the temp in that thing is going to skyrocket very quickly. Personally, after I outgrow my current RAID5 -- similar to the one I built here (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6558 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6558), but using SATA drives now -- I'm going to switch over to mirrored large drives instead of RAID5. As long as I don't start videotaping every second of the kid's lives I should be ok.