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Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoto be fair, the drive in question is a NAS drive, which is not a backup drive by its intended default usecase, unless you slapped it in a nas thats stored as a cloud storage in an offsite location.
its just a matter of people understanding that data redundancy is not a backup, just a level of data safeguard, as it only partially covers some of the forms of data loss and not all of them (e.g not immune to physical methods of data loss like fires, floods and stuff)
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
RAID is carrying a spare tire in your car. Backups are like having an extra car in the garage in case your primary geta totaled.
It’s possible you’ll never need either one, but if you pop a flat, a whole extra car is overkill.
It’s not a perfect metaphor, since most people don’t have a spare car.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
Most people don't have a RAID to fall back on either, and I would argue most cars' donuts or spares haven't been checked since the car was new so I think it holds up better than you're giving it credit for lol