Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:15:05 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
  

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I understood that what he offered took care of speed and volume nicely,
but not the safety. I could not make sure each backup is placed on a new
media or each disk there contains more than one backup. If a disk, any
disk, is accessed all the time, it will crash one day.
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 Wrong.
 The entire concept of RAID is to ensure data integrity (i.e. safety)
through redundancy.
 In vallor's example, 8 drives would have to fail SIMULTANEOUSLY
for data to be lost, and the probability of that occurrence would
be EXTREMELY small.
 You should adopt a RAID system with maybe 3-5 drives.  This system
would be on-line continuously and you could backup your data in a
continuous fashion.
 If desired, you could then backup to a more permanent storage
at regular intervals.
 RAID is used everywhere when data integrity is essential.
 I don't use it because my data is more of the "library"
model where weekly or even monthly backups are acceptable.