I am building a NAS in RAID 1 (Mirror) mode. Should I buy 2 of the same drive from the same manufacturer? or does it not matter so much?

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So you’re saying I should be running RAIDz2 instead of RAIDz1? You’re probably right. 😂

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I made that switch a few years ago for that reason.

      That said, as the saying goes, RAID is not a backup, it should never be the thing that stands between you having and losing all your data. RAID is effectively just one really dependable hard drive, but it’s still a single point of failure.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So you’re saying I should be running JBOD with backups instead of RAIDz1? You’re probably right.

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 year ago

          As long as you’re ok with it being way less dependable, and having to rebuild it from scratch more often 😉.