On the other hand, I myself use a similar approach. For home purpose I prefer having redundancy across several cheaper machines without raid1,10,5,6,z than a mo

On the other hand, I myself use a similar approach. For home purpose I prefer having redundancy across several cheaper machines without raid1,10,5,6,z than a more expensive single machine with disk redundancy. And I'd rather pay the additionnal money on putting ECC ram on all machines.