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arrow-up1407arrow-down1external-linkToshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmapwww.tomshardware.comgroup_hug@sh.itjust.works to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 9 天前message-square70linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·9 天前You should’ve been backing things up already. “If you have one, you have none”. Without proper backup your data is just waiting to disappear at the first unrecoverable failure.
minus-squareScratch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 天前And it can be fairly invisible in day-day use with 4 drives set up in RAID5.
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 天前just remember that raid is not a backup
minus-squareScratch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 天前I meant to get back to ask you what you meant by this. My (novice-level) understanding was R5 would give you redundancy and a way to restore one of your drives if it went down unrecoverably. Is that just wrong, or it doesn’t count as a backup?
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 天前it works thst way if a drive fails, yes, but not if your computer crashes in the wrong way or you accidentally delete a file. A backup has protection against these.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 天前Backing up with an increased frequency to mitigate the lost time.
You should’ve been backing things up already.
“If you have one, you have none”.
Without proper backup your data is just waiting to disappear at the first unrecoverable failure.
And it can be fairly invisible in day-day use with 4 drives set up in RAID5.
just remember that raid is not a backup
I meant to get back to ask you what you meant by this.
My (novice-level) understanding was R5 would give you redundancy and a way to restore one of your drives if it went down unrecoverably.
Is that just wrong, or it doesn’t count as a backup?
it works thst way if a drive fails, yes, but not if your computer crashes in the wrong way or you accidentally delete a file.
A backup has protection against these.
Backing up with an increased frequency to mitigate the lost time.