Basically title. Is it common to use some kind of RAID for backing up other RAIDs or do people just go with single drives?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Lol.

    If you have a spare box doing little, and a bunch of drives, it (or unRAID) are reasonable solutions. Proxmox can also build RAID with random drive sizes - I’m running one with 3 drives, using ZFS RAID 0, it has a terabyte of storage.

    Yep, it’s gonna suck when one of those drives fail.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Well as long as you’re aware of the risk and prepared for it, its not so bad to run in a volatile way like that. I ran my TN box for almost a decade on the same USB boot before I finally caved and picked up three Intel enterprise SSD for the job, with one as a cold spare. Nothing in the vox was critical or would be missed for more than a few beers of crying.