Raid 5 with WD15EARS

No that’s ok, you can do sales :slight_smile:

But I wont be buying any $250 drives soon.  If this solution doesn’t work because of dropping these drive and doing 7hr rebuilds all the time, I’ll probably go with a BD backup system, possibly mirroring.   I lost a 500 and a 750g drive last hear, hence the new method of avoiding restores.   It’s just a convenience of having all that data available all the time, no business need here. 

What is different about the RE drives that makes them better for raid?