RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
The real world failure rate of single drives is just too high. A second drive makes bad days tolerably rare.
I’m down a lot longer while I pull everything back down my internet connection from the cloud than I am stuffing a new drive in an enclosure and letting it re-silver in the background.
It depends on what’s on the drive. I have a large library of games stored on striped spinning rust. What it does is let me play very old games without downloading them every time. When one fails which isn’t very often, I just buy a new one, rebuild the array and download again. Usually I’m downloading the library cause I did something stupid and broke it.
Any data I value at all is at least in a redundant array and anything that I don’t want to ever lose is in a proper 3-2-1 solution. Keeps the costs down, cause I’d be sad if I lost my jellyfin stuff but screwed if I lost my pictures or tax stuff.
RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
The real world failure rate of single drives is just too high. A second drive makes bad days tolerably rare.
I’m down a lot longer while I pull everything back down my internet connection from the cloud than I am stuffing a new drive in an enclosure and letting it re-silver in the background.
It depends on what’s on the drive. I have a large library of games stored on striped spinning rust. What it does is let me play very old games without downloading them every time. When one fails which isn’t very often, I just buy a new one, rebuild the array and download again. Usually I’m downloading the library cause I did something stupid and broke it.
Any data I value at all is at least in a redundant array and anything that I don’t want to ever lose is in a proper 3-2-1 solution. Keeps the costs down, cause I’d be sad if I lost my jellyfin stuff but screwed if I lost my pictures or tax stuff.