i think what he means is, down time isn't a big deal since recovering from back up is quick enough in his case. I never found raid 5 particularly helpful becau

i think what he means is, down time isn't a big deal since recovering from back up is quick enough in his case. I never found raid 5 particularly helpful because: #1 hard disks tend to fail at the same time #2 systems fail to give warnings on bad disks ie everything is working, no red flashing lights, things go boom, restart, just kidding, lol you got 2 bad disks. #3 redundant servers > redundant disks for uptime #4 cloud but thats just me and my use cases edit: when i use raid, i use raid 10 or raid 0