i'm looking to set up a home server; nothing fancy, mostly a file server. my gf and i have just had a few unfortuante accidents with hd failure and no data backups, so we're thinking a mirrored RAID ...

RAID Level options are: 0,1,5,6,10,50,60 I'm currently favoring RAID-50; tolerating 1 drive failure is sufficient for our needs as the data will be going to tape weekly and downtime isn't a huge deal ...