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32TB hard drives are incoming according to Toshiba(www.pcgamesn.com)

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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If it’s split up sure, but I’m talking about a raid > 0 setup and/or having backup copies of your data onto drive #2

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Raid0? You mean having two devices stripped across is rather than just one device with no stripping? Raid0 is a risk you take when you care more about performance than downtime to restore a backup.

If I have 20TB of data, it cannot fit on a single 16TB drive. So my options are Raid, or this single drive option. I would always pick the single drive if I could afford it.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Double check that symbol there.

Raid 5 is a great balance of capacity and useful storage with 3 drives. You get 1 drive worth of fault tolerance and 2 drives worth of capacity. I personally have mismatched drives so I run raid 1 in between the matching sizes, and jbod between the raid 1 mirrors (well the zfs equivilent) And my really important data is backed up onto two more drives in raid 10.

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meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe
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The person I replied to said

I’m uncomfortable storing 16TB worth of data on one drive

as a criticism of using a single 32TB drive.

I argue that a single 32TB drive is less risk than using 2 16TB drives. Am I wrong?

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