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talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 week agoRAID (except RAID0) is data redundancy, it just isn’t backup (ie. it doesn’t help if you accidentally delete stuff, or if some bug corrupts it, or if you drop the computer while moving it).
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Fine.
Pull 1 drive and see how redundant your data is while it’s resilvering.
RAID is NOT data redundancy.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 week ago
RAID0 has no redundancy, but all of the other RAID options do have redundancy.
talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
By that reasoning, backup isn’t redundancy because you’ll lose your data if the backup gets corrupted while restoring.
That said, there’s nothing wrong in redefining “redundant” to mean “having two or more duplicates”… you should however tell people if you do, to avoid misleading people that assume the dictionary definition.