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You're doing RAID arrays wrong

stop doing it in the BIOS and thinking you're safe because y...
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
thanks, Professor Messer
my dog is a bigger TRUMP fan than I am
  09/10/25
You've made the implicit, fundamental puppyn00b error of thi...
Greetings
  09/10/25
RAID is the realm of hobbyists everyone with a job has be...
Juan Eighty
  09/10/25
The cloud is way slower. Your Verizon gigabit internet is st...
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
Drobo used to handle this for us, but BIG CLOUD drove them o...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  09/10/25
If the data was already corrupted when you backed up the dri...
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
IDK what this means but my family’s photos are backed ...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  09/10/25
https://i.imgur.com/8C32ZlU.jpeg
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
ZFS solves this
daniel gay luis
  09/10/25


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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:23 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

stop doing it in the BIOS and thinking you're safe because you created a mirror raid. That doesn't actually work, because if data gets corrupted on one of the drives, your motherboard has no way of knowing offhand which drive has the good data. If you sync the array, and one drive has fucked up sectors, it may just copy its fucked up corrupted files onto the good drive, overwriting your "backup" copies.

There's also no perfect way to do this with only two drives. You need a third drive in the array that can [hopefully] tell which of the two other drives is fucked up, and vice versa. But your motherboard can't do that, only software can do that HTH. Leave that shit in AHCI mode in your BIOS and never use "RAID" mode.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249450)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:26 AM
Author: my dog is a bigger TRUMP fan than I am (Fight! Fight! Fight!)

thanks, Professor Messer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249467)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:33 AM
Author: Greetings

You've made the implicit, fundamental puppyn00b error of thinking RAID is a backup. It's not, and no one but you thinks it is.

RAID is /part/ of a backup solution. I use Crashplan for rolling backups, so if something gets corrupt, it's no big deal. At some point a few years ago, I'd deleted some contracts off my computer and was able to retrieve various versions of them with that.

RAID is so I don't have to restore from Crashplan unless necessary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249479)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:36 AM
Author: Juan Eighty

RAID is the realm of hobbyists

everyone with a job has been getting paid $160k/yr to migrate storage to corpo/govt-approved AWS for over half a decade

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249485)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:44 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

The cloud is way slower. Your Verizon gigabit internet is still less than half the speed of 2.5Gbe you can get with shitty TPlink products

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249490)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:44 AM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III

Drobo used to handle this for us, but BIG CLOUD drove them out of business

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249492)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:46 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

If the data was already corrupted when you backed up the drive, your backup drive will only contain corrupted files. This is why servers use ECC RAM btw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249498)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 1:12 AM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III

IDK what this means but my family’s photos are backed up on iCloud and BackBlaze and copies of our important documents are in the gun safe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249528)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 1:24 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

https://i.imgur.com/8C32ZlU.jpeg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249534)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 2:47 AM
Author: daniel gay luis

ZFS solves this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2...id.#49249600)