software raid on removable drives for backups

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 09:09 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.

I'll second Khattri's and Michael's recommendation. I've gone to using
only Seagate when the decision is mine to make.

Kurt