I want to store large video files on some sort of hard drive array so we can play them on our media sever. I have been considering a RAID 5 system. Ill have all the files backed up, but since there will be a lot of time invested in getting the videos converted to the correct format I dont wont to lose the files. I always thought that RAID was the greatest thing since sliced bread until I had a computer that lost a motherboard, and I could not get my data off the RAID as you can a normal hard drive. I kind of lost that secure feeling about having a RAID. Is there some RAID systems avoid these hardware issues?
Since the files wont change is there some kind of software that can create a virtual raid. It could build the parity info only when the new data is added, but if your hardware failed you could still read the data off the drives?
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