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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 03:26:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55472D28.70804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201505040913.16093.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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Mick wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2015 08:46:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not
>>> be able to get back.  Some videos I have are no longer available.
>>
>> RAID is not a backup solution.
>
> Not only RAID 1 isn't a back up solution, because it offers temporary
> redundancy rather than diverse protection, but under certain scenarios
you
> have a much higher chance of losing your data when the first drive
fails.  If
> you bought two (or more) drives at the same time and built a RAID from
them,
> their failure performance due to same construction and age could be quite
> similar.  On many occasions your last healthy drive fails, just as you
try to
> rebuild the RAID.
>


I think this has happened to folks on this list.  I've read about this
somewhere before.  It makes sense too.  I'd like to have two different
brands of drives if I could.  That should spread things out, maybe.

Dale

:-)  :-)


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-04  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-28  8:39 [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Dale
2015-04-28 14:49 ` Francisco Ares
2015-04-28 15:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-28 15:24   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 17:38     ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:11       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 18:31         ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:41           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 22:02     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-29  1:24       ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-29  6:20       ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29 14:31         ` Grant Edwards
2015-04-29  6:13     ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29  7:52       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04  7:39         ` Dale
2015-05-04  7:46           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04  8:13             ` Mick
2015-05-04  8:26               ` Dale [this message]
2015-05-04  8:23             ` Dale
2015-05-04 10:31               ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 10:40                 ` Dale
2015-05-04 11:26                   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-09 10:56                     ` Dale
2015-05-09 12:59                       ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-09 14:46                         ` Todd Goodman
2015-05-09 18:16                           ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 11:35                 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 18:42                   ` Nuno Magalhães
2015-05-05  6:41                     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-05-05 10:56                     ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 11:33                       ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:05                         ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:21                           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:39                             ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:53                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 21:50                               ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 22:21                                 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-05 22:33                                   ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-04 10:57               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-28 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04  7:23 ` Dale
2015-05-05  3:01   ` Walter Dnes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-09  1:16 Dale
2018-11-09  1:31 ` Jack
2018-11-09  1:43   ` Dale
2018-11-09  2:04     ` Andrew Lowe
2018-11-09  2:07     ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09  8:39       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-09  2:29 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09  8:17   ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09 13:25     ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09  9:02   ` J. Roeleveld
2018-11-11  0:45   ` Dale
2018-11-11 21:41     ` Wol's lists
2018-11-11 22:17       ` Dale
2018-11-09  9:24 ` Wols Lists
2015-04-27  7:41 Dale
2015-04-28 18:25 ` Daniel Frey
2015-04-28 21:23   ` Dale

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