Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

[Mitja Podreka <mitja.podreka@gmail.com>]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Something to consider:  The price of an external multi-drive enclosure
> with cables would probably cost more than an old spare computer (PII?)
> plus a decent PCI ethernet card.  I did that with my 486 but with ISA it
> only does 10-T ethernet.
>
> Poke around the school.  You may be surprised what old computers are
> around that work perfectly for what you want.
>   
I had something like this in mind as I know the faculty has a lot of old 
computers lying around. I will probably start  with one drive and after 
testing move to some RAID configuration. Is software RAID good enough 
for this purpose or is better to buy RAID controller?

thanks
Mitja