group_hug@sh.itjust.works to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 days agoToshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmapwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1380arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agojust remember that raid is not a backup
minus-squareScratch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoI 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-up0·4 days agoit 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.
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.