I want a very reliable hard drive which also has a lower price. I’ve looked online and found an argument for practically every brand there is. I just wanted to ask here for recommendations, what do you guys use? Thank you!

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You need RAID

    I’d say that one needs backups.

    After one has backups, if it’s necessary, then I’d look at RAID for reducing downtime in the event of a drive failure.

    But one doesn’t want to use RAID instead of backups.

    https://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-backup

    Why is RAID not a backup?

    When someone mentions RAID in a conversation about backups, invariably someone declares that “RAID is not a backup.”

    Sure, for striping, that’s true. But what’s the difference between redundancy and a backup?

    RAID guards against one kind of hardware failure. There’s lots of failure modes that it doesn’t guard against.

    • File corruption

    • Human error (deleting files by mistake)

    • Catastrophic damage (someone dumps water onto the server)

    • Viruses and other malware

    • Software bugs that wipe out data

    • Hardware problems that wipe out data or cause hardware damage (controller malfunctions, firmware bugs, voltage spikes, …)

    and more.

    No disagreement with your broader point about a single drive ultimately being bounded in the kind of reliability that it can provide, though.