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You're doing RAID arrays wrong
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:23 AM Author: Aromatic dilemma mood 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. |
Date: September 10th, 2025 12:26 AM Author: Provocative spot thanks, Professor Messer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49249467) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:33 AM Author: Slimy Therapy National 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. |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:36 AM Author: flushed startled patrolman double fault 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 |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:44 AM Author: Aromatic dilemma mood 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=2Reputation#49249490) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 5:45 AM Author: Buff home rigor The trend is swinging away from bigcloud. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49249663) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:44 AM Author: alcoholic space black woman 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=2Reputation#49249492) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:46 AM Author: Aromatic dilemma mood 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=2Reputation#49249498) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 1:12 AM Author: alcoholic space black woman 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=2Reputation#49249528) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 1:24 AM Author: Aromatic dilemma mood https://i.imgur.com/8C32ZlU.jpeg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49249534) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 6:03 AM Author: stirring grizzly gas station wrinkle Why not just print physical copies and read them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49249678) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:43 AM Author: Aromatic dilemma mood Can't do word searches on printer paper (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49250064) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 2:47 AM Author: cracking step-uncle's house halford ZFS solves this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49249600) |
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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:44 AM Author: Aromatic dilemma mood Makes it worse due to all the overhead. BTRFS consumes fewer CPU cycles and RAM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771556&forum_id=2Reputation#49250065) |