I have a nas with 2x10tb drives. I mostly just have music, movies and tv shows on it.

People talk about raid not being a backup, but is that relevant for non-original data? I mean I can always get the media again if need be. It would just be an inconvenience.

What would you do?

  • originalucifer
    3•7 months ago

    i have ~24tb (6x4) unraided x3 on separate nas, one of which is only plugged in and turned on every few months. if i lose a drive, i can clone the whole thing quickly from one of the other 2 backups… i dont have to worry about failed raid arrays and i get a bit more useful storage…

    in the ~5 years i’ve had this setup going i think ive only lost one drive, and it started throwin smart errors long before it died

    i guess im using a ‘redundant array of inexpensive nas’ = RAIN! is that a thing? can i make it a thing?

    • @CmdrShepardEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      Curious what was the model of your drive failure? I have 6 years now on a bunch of 8TB WD Elements/EasyStore drives as well as some 10TB-14TB WD MyBook, Elements, and refurbished WD drives from serverpartdeals in the preceding years. Still no failures yet but I’m expecting one eventually.