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True, it does cover that specific case. But it doesn't cover the your RAID controller dying, your house burning down, burglary, tornado, tsunami, earthquake an
by lossyalgo 1y ago
True, it does cover that specific case.
But it doesn't cover the your RAID controller dying, your house burning down, burglary, tornado, tsunami, earthquake and other "acts of god", etc.
"A backup is a copy of the information that is not attached to the system where the original information is."
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- jandrese 1y ago> But it doesn't cover the your RAID controller dying One of the reasons some people ditch the hardware RAID controllers and do everything in software. If you're at the point of pulling the drives from a dead enclosure and sticking them in something new it's really nice to not have to worry about hardware differences.
- darkwater 1y agoI agree, RAID is not a backup (and nobody said it is, in this thread). But if you self-host a lot of data, even as a hobby, it will make your life easier in case of disk failure.
- lossyalgo 1y agoI thought it was implied with "No RAID?" in response to data loss (wherein they mentioned that they had a backup :) I'm personally very skeptical as I have been using/used RAID for 20+ years, and I have lost data due to: - crappy/faulty RAID controllers: who actually spends money to buy a good hardware controller, when a cheap version is included in most Motherboards built in the last 15+ years? In one case (a build for a friend), the onboard controller was writing corrupt data to BOTH drives in a RAID-0, so when we tried to recover, the data on both drives was corrupt. - Windows 8 beta which nuked my 8-drive partition during install