should i do a raid configuration or is it risky

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mwa@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

hi i plan when windows 10 ends support i go from partially (dualbooting) linux to fully using it is it even safe or will i lose all my data thanks for any help

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0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Go ZFS-RAIDZ1 if you can.

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- Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  eh i am just gonna use 2 disks since i have only 2
  
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  - minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    IIRC TrueNAS next release will include RaidZ1 with 2 disks
    
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  - 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    A regular mirror then.
    
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rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’d suggest it depends on your hardware setup. If you have sufficient disks and care about availability and/or performance of your data access, RAID is rarely a bad idea.

If you choose to do a software RAID in Linux without Intel RST, you have three main options: mdadm, LVM, and ZFS. You can explore those options on your own, but my personal view is that ZFS is wonderful to work with and comes with tons of benefits itself alongside its ZRAID implementation, making it my preferred choice.

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- Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  tbh i can do btrfs or zfs or mdam with ext4 but i dont like how btrfs is kinda unreliable (not really kindof) zfs requires a third party module to work with linux and mdam would be a nice option and i hope its easier to enable raid on
  
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Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Remember that raid isn’t a backup but just a way to minimize downtime if one of the disks breaks (except raid 0)

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- Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I kinda wanna use raid 0 since I only have 2 disks
  
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