If an external hard-drive is working intermittently-once every other week or so-would you use it to store the only copy of data crucial to your business?
Oh, and ~1TiB eSATA RAID5 is sweet :D
Sure it's not as sweet as ~10TiB twin 2Gib Fibre Channel RAID5 but eh...
Oh...and I still don't know if my father's [house|restaurant|cafe|sound studio] was hit by the plane that
crashed into a residential area of
Medan...but as he says, "no news is good news."