Cheap RAID Solution?

[georgiosd]

Hello everyone,

I need large amounts of storage (around 2TB at the moment growing) and as you can understand backing up such large amounts is difficult so I was thinking about considering RAID solutions.

Now, RAID-1 would probably not be cost effective, RAID-5 sounds much more plausible. Does anyone know of any cheap enclosure with RAID? The only ones I could find were £300+.

Thanks
Georgios

 

[georgiosd]

Hm... first of all thanks for the responses.

Now, two questions:

- I understand RAID-5 is not a backup but it allows data recovery if one hard drive crashes, correct?

- I'd be looking for something that is small. With four drives I doubt it would be small enough to carry around but something that is small enough to hide under a TV table (and equally silent) would be ideal.

Any recommendations on that note?

Thanks again