I don’t understand why everybody is fanatic about RAID in home environment… Until you don’t have a bulletproof backup, you shouldn’t even think about it

dedicated software that can create verifiable historical backup files. Like Veeam or Macrium, or the new generation like Duplicacy, Arq, Borg, etc. All of them have integrity verification integrated.

if you use real backups, and not just simple copies, then your backup software has verify function. For simple copies you should use hash files or something that can build a hash database and verify it. Btw. you should already use hash checking for live data anyway. For archiving you can create winrar archives with 10% recovery record, so it can self-verify and self-repair easily.

it’s pinned post in this sub

lol, dark

Why people only post here after their drive dies? Don’t be offended if you won’t get sympathy here, because there are about 2 posts like this every week.

Why there are no posts like “Look, guys I’ve made backups, be proud of me!” ?

I consider it wasting money in this scale, not to mention the speed impact of writes. But if that makes you sleep well then do it.

Just don’t update the ZFS lol. Have you heard the news about that bug?

why do you feel irresistible urge to use raid ?

that’s the difference between the paid software, where the user-friendliness is the priority, and the open-source software, where the functionality is the priority.

Also check netdata which has an exceptional baseline config, you can instantly use it without any need to fiddle with the settings. Of course it will need some config later if you want to to go fancy, but it is instantly usable.

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