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When I'm just buying drives for my home machines, I'd pay much more for a lower failure rate because a dead drive means a lot of time and massive inconvenience
by brokenmachine 8y ago
When I'm just buying drives for my home machines, I'd pay much more for a lower failure rate because a dead drive means a lot of time and massive inconvenience plus some research and a trip to the computer store to buy a replacement.
I'd honestly pay double if I could be guaranteed to avoid all that.
- ADefenestrator 8y agoThere's some other downsides of course, but RAID1 basically gets you exactly that. Double price for much lower failure rate of the storage volume. Go with different manufacturers for the two drives to further reduce the failure rate at the probable cost of a little performance and space.