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Don't rely on a single drive. If your data is important for you, invest in a two-bay NAS and put two hard drives in a RAID1. Hard drives can and do break.
by input_sh 7y ago
Don't rely on a single drive. If your data is important for you, invest in a two-bay NAS and put two hard drives in a RAID1. Hard drives can and do break.
- trasz 7y agoOr better yet, don’t use RAID and do backups instead. Software - including file systems - breaks too.
- aaronmdjones 7y agoAs trasz points out, RAID is not a backup. Nothing stops e.g. a filesystem bug or a crypto-locking malware from destroying everything on a RAID array. & that's before we get into the fragility of hardware RAID controllers giving up the ghost for no reason and then you not being able to import the drives into something else.