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Totally agree and I'll go one further, I don't want to use RAID at all in a non professional context. Maybe I'm too simplistic but for my personal stuff I don'
by seniorThrowaway 6y ago
Totally agree and I'll go one further, I don't want to use RAID at all in a non professional context. Maybe I'm too simplistic but for my personal stuff I don't use RAID, LVM or anything beyond plain ext4 file systems on whole disks. For redundancy I use rsync at whatever frequency makes sense to another disk of the same size. I've run like this for 10 years and replaced many disks without losing data. The time I ran soft RAID I lost the whole array because one disk failed and a SATA error happened at the same time.
- tialaramex 6y agoLVM is very nice because it eliminates that problem where you've got an almost full 2TB disk and you bought another 2TB disk and now you need to figure out what moves where. With LVM you just say nah, that's just 2TB more space for my data, let the machine figure it out. I mean, if you enjoy sorting through going "OK that's photos of my kids, that goes in pile A, but these are materials from the re-mortgage application and go in pile B" then knock yourself out, but I have other things I want to do with my life, leave it to the machine to store stuff. If you lost everything that's because you lacked backups and (repeat after me) RAID is not a backup. Everybody should get into the habit of doing backups. Like any survivalist learns, two is one and one is none.