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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Xaphanos@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I have an old surplus QNAP. I love it. Very capable, easy to setup, easy to use it and forget about it. Mine is set up for RAID5.
Be certain to get a reliable UPS for it. And have a spare drive on hand.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 4 days ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 days 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.
alterelefant@mastodontech.de 3 days 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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
It’s not an extra life, it’s another health point. Red mushroom, not green mushroom.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
alterelefant@mastodontech.de 3 days ago
@RunningInRVA Apologies, I have clearly read your comment wrongly.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
thanks, I’ll look into it
funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 days 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.