adONis@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 months agoRAID or single drive for backups?message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down11file-text
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Basically title. Is it common to use some kind of RAID for backing up other RAIDs or do people just go with single drives?
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoWell, afaik the spinning up and down and related temperature changes do the most damage. I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?
minus-squareAtemu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWithout any cold hard data, this isn’t worth discussing.
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoThe “cold hard data” is that 100% of the people that would be able to collect this “cold hard data” run their drives 24/7.
Well, afaik the spinning up and down and related temperature changes do the most damage. I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?
Without any cold hard data, this isn’t worth discussing.
The “cold hard data” is that 100% of the people that would be able to collect this “cold hard data” run their drives 24/7.
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