Desktop PC Raid 5 or JBOD?

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Published on 2012-06-13T04:35:12Z Indexed on 2012/06/13 4:39 UTC
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I have a desktop PC and I want to get alot of space for movies, music, and pictures. I probably will not be deleting files.

I am running Windows 7 on my system. It is kind of silly I just want the physical drives to be labeled as a single letter drive. And probably map my video, documents, pictures and music on that single drive.

The main reason I considered RAID 5 because I would be lazy to get the data I lost and hopefully that if I get a new drive, it would rebuild it.

So my question is which would be better?

A second question is can I get RAID card that has only 2 internal connectors and still do RAID 5? or do I have to get a RAID card that has 4 internal connectors.

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