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Originally Posted by sperry
RAID 5 has a huge advantage over RAID 0+1, you get nearly twice as much space on the array for the same number of disks. Five drives in a RAID 5 gives you the same space as eight drives in RAID 0+1. The *only* reason to ever use a mirroring solution is if you need no loss of performance if a single drive fails.
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Ah, that's right. As usual I read up and compared, and decided Raid 0+1 was better for us (no downtime if a drive fails) and promptly forgot about the process that led to the decision.
And my music collection is not "critical" but it is irreplacable in large part without spending a bunch of money, and completely irreplaceable without duplicating the hundreds of hours I've spent ripping CDs, downloading and sorting MP3s, and editing the tags.