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1 disk or 2-disk NAS, for relatively small storage need?
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mattkime wrote:
imo, 2 drive mirror raids don't make much sense. mirror raids are for uptime. they're not a backup - they'll copy any data losses waaay too fast.

That's the way I feel also. In my experience data loss through human mistakes trumps data loss through HD error. Of course, the latter tends to be catastrophic to all, so there's that.

So playing along here, if I had a 2-drive box but didn't mirror it, it'd be most valuable as a way to RAID it for increase size.

And then, I'd have to have a backup somewhere else/attached via USB of the same capacity. Like using 2 3TB inside and a single 6TB outside backing it up. Doesn't make sense to me although I haven't priced them like that.

Once things move beyond simple 1-to-1 drives if gets weird fast unless you use RAID5/Drobo methodology and just replace busted drives within the array as necessary but that's a lot of storage and expense I don't need.
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Re: 1 disk or 2-disk NAS, for relatively small storage need? - by deckeda - 02-24-2016, 03:27 AM

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