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I like snapraid for media drives. As long as it’s something without lots of deletes and changes, I bet more space and can use mixed drives and get a bit of a ba
by xcrunner529 1y ago
I like snapraid for media drives. As long as it’s something without lots of deletes and changes, I bet more space and can use mixed drives and get a bit of a backup too since it’s a manual sync to create or update the “parity”. And the added advantage that any drive taken out or they dies you still can read any if the content on the other drives at any time.
- j45 1y agoI'll check out snapraid, thanks. The challenge is a "bit of a backup" is risky. There's no back up if it's only a single copy of something, or even a single copy of something. 3-2-1 backups are really in time teach everyone the lesson that you don't buy storage, you buy backups, some that are more quickly accessible than others. The cost of "maximizing" space with the drives I have, for example, is relatively trivial and simpler, its in the hundreds of dollars now instead of thousands. The upside is huge. Solely trusting third party services is risky, and locally holding your data can be relatively managed well.
- xcrunner529 1y agoSure. I am just using it for my media server which I could “re-acquire” if I really needed too. What I meant by “bit of backup” was you could actually restore files that were deleted since the last sync since it’s not always live like RAID and requires scheduled syncs to update the parity info. It’s a compromise I make as a home user for my media server.