I dumped my Soft RAID 5 setup last summer. It just wasn't practical.
One of my Samsung P120 250Mb drives failed. It didn't really fail completely but it gave tons of sector errors and I wound up losing a bunch of pictures from a day trip. I RMA'd the disk back to Scan.co.uk and got a replacement. Got the same problem! RMA'd it a second time. They said the drive was fine and gave me my money back. I did a ton of testing of my other disks and SATA connections and still think there's something wrong with either the disks I...
I went to the HiFi show at Heathrow and was very impressed with a demo of a system by Overkill. There were three main technologies used in the system that I believe made it sound great:
1) A digital cross-over by DEQX
2) Bi-amping
3) Speakers using Manger drivers
An entry-level system with these core components from Overkill costs about £13,400 (Angel speakers £8000, DEQX £3000, 5 channel Butler tube amp £2400) - well over my budget.
I've since done quite a lot of research on all three of these technologies trying to think of how I could advance my own home hifi. In this...