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RAID6, my person. RAID6.

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RAID is not a backup.

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It is not. But backups are also not RAID.

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Yes, obviously.

You need backups. RAID or something similar is only necessary if you need redundancy which is most often not as necessary compared to loosing all your data.

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RAID6 only works if the machine is working fine. If something happens that toasts the whole thing then you’re fucked unless you have a backup offsite.

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Backups are important, but we were talking about drive failures. Backups help when you screw up the data; RAID6 helps when drives go bad. If you don’t trust the hardware, RAID.

Backups only means you’re down until you restore; RAID5/6 means you stay up.

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Right, but he was talking about the 3 2 1 rule and you recommended RAID6.

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