Comment on Spare mini PCs? What would you do with them?

androidul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks for the response. I currently am housing something like 24TB of data give or take so unfortunately I don’t think they’d make effective backups. There’s simply too much. I have my current storage array in RAID6 so that’s my backup solution at the moment.

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  • darkan15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t need to backup all your 24TB of data, you can have a copy of a subset of your important data on another device, if possible the best would be a 3-2-1 approach.

    “RAID is not a backup”, is something that is mentioned a lot, as you can still lose data on a RAID setup.

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    • sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lol I haven’t heard the “RAID is not a backup” before but it’s true I’ll have to see how I would manage that and what data would be a good candidate for this implementation.

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      • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Please take it from me. I and many others have also carelessly bet on RAID as a backup and lost. I know storage is expensive but you’ve got to at least back up the important things.

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