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Re: Okay....Raid 0 or Mirrored Drives?
Considering that harddrives are mechanical with comparitively shorter lifespans than the remainder of your hardware, setting drives up in RAID 0 is always considered risky for important data. However though, RAID1 is no substitute for backups, it will only keep your hardware alive. If there is a corruption in your data, it will be propagated through the system.
RAID0 is fine if the data on your computer isn't that important or if you keep good frequent backups handy. Pretty much if you can recover from a bad disk in a couple hours without any stress then there's not much to worry about.
Since it seems like your interested in what others are doing, I personally use a RAID5 with four disks in my home server. RAID5 is generally considered to be a compromise between performance and being able to use as much of your disk space as possible.
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