XPost: aus.computers   
   From: me@bugger.off.com.au   
      
   On 25/12/2025 4:57 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:18:19 +1000, keithr0 wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 24/12/2025 3:33 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I got a new 12TB drive for my backup machine just a couple months   
   >>> ago.   
   >>   
   >> That's a lot of eggs in one basket ...   
   >   
   > That’s why I have a backup machine.   
   >   
   >> ... personally I'd prefer a RAID 5 or 6 setup with smaller drives.   
   >   
   > RAID is about high availability, not about backup.   
      
   RAID is about failure resilience, if you have a single drive a failure   
   loses everything. Make a RAID group, and the loss of a single drive   
   results in no data loss. Done properly, it also improves performance.   
      
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