minus-squareJFowler369@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwiselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoRAID is redundancy. It saves your data if a or two drive fail, but does not help you if the entire RAID system dies (power surge, fire, water damage). Generally if it is on the same system it is not a backup. linkfedilink
minus-squareJFowler369@lemmy.worldtoPC Master Race@lemmy.world•Money shot of my Unraid ServerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’d love to get mine all on SSDs but 80tb of SSDs gets pretty expensive linkfedilink
RAID is redundancy. It saves your data if a or two drive fail, but does not help you if the entire RAID system dies (power surge, fire, water damage). Generally if it is on the same system it is not a backup.