Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users?

Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This. Everyone starts off thinking they’ll buy a NAS and it will just exist for years to come. There is some maintenance and monitoring involved, and if you “set it and forget it”, you can say goodbye to all that data.

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• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please consider RAID6 or ensure your data is fully backed up. RAID5 falls flat if a drive fails during resilvering the array.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And, because a resilver involves significant load on the remaining drives, it’s more likely than you think. If you have drives from the same batch, they likely have the same MTTF.

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  • alterelefant@mastodontech.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @RunningInRVA
    Please don't label RAID a backup because it is not. RAID 1, 5 or 6 will give you a robust drive pool that is able to recover from a failed drive.

    Backups should be done on a different medium and ideally off-site.

    @Xaphanos

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not an extra life, it’s another health point. Red mushroom, not green mushroom.

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    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well I wasn’t trying to, exactly. Just trying to convey that RAID5 is not considered reliable and that I was urging the commenter to ensure they have a backup if that’s what they are going to use. Regardless of how you configure your NAS, you can always lose data by mistake.

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      • alterelefant@mastodontech.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        @RunningInRVA Apologies, I have clearly read your comment wrongly.

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thanks, I’ll look into it

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