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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Been my experience that just a systematic periodic backup on a standalone remote drive beats even a RAID drive. The issue is how often and if it even gets done. The raid drive is doing backup constantly, ok if you have the overhead.
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That's been my strategy.
People will scream that RAID is not backup, but the very first word in RAID is redundant. Just makes life easy when a drive fails, plus the extra performance is a bonus.
I inventoried my drive collection last night, and 1 TB just isn't worth much these days. I can sell each drive for $30, which isn't worth the hassle to me to DOD wipe them, list on Ebay, and ship (eating $10 of the profit). Maybe someone is interested in buying my whole collection so I only have to make 1 listing and 1 shipment.
I'm leaning towards purchasing two more of either my 10 or 12 TB drive and making a proper RAID 5 volume.That would give me 20 TB usable which should tide me over a long time and provide some space to spin up VMs. My tower has 24 cores and 32GB RAM.