At what point did you stop buying external hard drives and switch to RAID?
On the fence about this
Grayson Torres
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Liam Perry
What do you mean "at what point"?
Adam Thomas
what kind of raid doesnt require a hard drive?
Aiden Morales
RAID cannot replace offline backup kek, its not meant for backup
David Moore
Are you confusing RAID with NAS? I have an external enclosure that has RAID support, so I'm confused about what you're trying to get at?
Xavier Sanders
What's the point of RAID for a home setup? If I'm going to use extra drives to protect my data I'm going to use them as cold backups, my personal data doesn't need high-availability.
Colton Bailey
RAID= Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
NAS= Network Attached Storage
I use a NAS to keep all my shit for long term sotrage. It used a RAID 5 configuration (which requires at least 3 disks and provides a speed boost to reading / writing. More importantly if one of the drives dies you can just switch it out like nothing happened. If two die the data is gone.)
Austin Mitchell
for home usage offline backup is more important than a RAID setup, RAID is designed for high data availability not backing up large amounts of data for long term
Ryder Price
bit-rot detection and prevention. Availability is just a bonus desu senpai
Eli Sanders
>what kind of raid doesnt require a hard drive?
you would use an internal hard drive, of course. dense motherfucker
RAIDs are used for backups all the time in corporate settings. SANs, VTLs, etc
It doesn't have to be network attached, though that would be fine. The question is, when does it make more sense to buy an external enclosure with a RAID controller inside it that holds 4+ drives instead of buying a large capacity external USB standalone drive?