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This is the way. For even more peace of mind, (and only when you can afford it, obviously) try decoupling your disk purchases a bit from when you're going to n
by loxias 4y ago
This is the way.
For even more peace of mind, (and only when you can afford it, obviously) try decoupling your disk purchases a bit from when you're going to need them.
When you see a good price or a sale on a particular disk, grab it add it to your own personal "prebought disk pool". When it's time to either replace a disk or spin up a whole new array, now you have the benefit of diversification across time.
- Hamuko 4y agoMy current procedure is to keep an external drive for backups and if any of the drives in my RAID fails, I'll just shuck the external and stick it in the RAID. The advantage is that the drive is already known to be good through running badblocks (which takes like a week to run), and I don't need to wait for a week for the Amazon man to get here. Disadvantage is that I need to recreate my backup from the start, which loses out my version history, or restore it from an online copy, which is slow and cumbersome.