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> No need for wasteful RAID10/50/60 setups. Just plug in more drives. Those RAID set ups are only "wasteful" if you don't need that level of redundancy (ie the
by laumars 8y ago
> No need for wasteful RAID10/50/60 setups. Just plug in more drives.
Those RAID set ups are only "wasteful" if you don't need that level of redundancy (ie the number of disks that can fail at the same time). Most home users only really need 1 redundancy disk (actually most home users don't even need that) but a production database server is another matter entirely.
For clarity, the reason we have redundancy drives isn't to mitigate the need for backups; it's the mitigate the likelihood of downtime while you rebuild your storage array from a backup. Which is why most home users don't even need 1 redundancy disk - they just need to be disciplined in backing important stuff up.