software raid on removable drives for backups

[Michael Hipp]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jason Joines wrote:
> 
> 
>>They were all 80 GB Maxtor D540X drives.
> 
> 
> Having used Maxtor and Western Digital drives and have them fail *within*
> the warranty, we have decided to use only Seagate drives - they seem to
> last a long time (espec. SCSI) and have a 5 year warranty.

A. Khattri's advice is spot on. If reliability matters, there's no 
beating Seagate.

Michael