I guess my combined 12TB across five drives ranging in age from 13 to six years old will have to suffice. The only reason I’d need to buy a new drive is if a couple of my current drives die. Which does happen on occasion, of course.
Also, fuck AI, and the assholes who made it, and everyone who currently, personally profits off it. This bubble popping will be the catalyst to take down the entire world economy. MMW.
This feels like such a beginner question to be asking on Lemmy, let alone the tech community, but how does one go about setting up a RAID array to have my data mirrored? I only know the basics I remember about raid 1 and raid 0.
Is this RAID array something you can do without one of those “multi-hard drive units”? I have 2 16TB hard drives that I’d like to have one as a mirror copy of the first as a backup that updates at the same time but they feel too big to fit into one of those units. But maybe setting up a RAID array could be done programmatically.
I’d love and appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction!
It depends greatly on what kind of machine you are running. Many PC’s have RAID capabilities built into their BIOS. Others will need special RAID software, which will vary by OS. Finally you can buy the multidisk raid enclosures, which may either have their own raid capabilities on the hardware or may use a software solution to go with the hardware.
I guess my combined 12TB across five drives ranging in age from 13 to six years old will have to suffice. The only reason I’d need to buy a new drive is if a couple of my current drives die. Which does happen on occasion, of course.
Also, fuck AI, and the assholes who made it, and everyone who currently, personally profits off it. This bubble popping will be the catalyst to take down the entire world economy. MMW.
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Their prices seem 2x what they were a few years ago. 2.5 years ago I bought two 16TB HGSTs from them for $170 each.
Yeah fortunately mine are all in RAID arrays, hopefully none die in the next year or I may have to run degraded.
This feels like such a beginner question to be asking on Lemmy, let alone the tech community, but how does one go about setting up a RAID array to have my data mirrored? I only know the basics I remember about raid 1 and raid 0.
Is this RAID array something you can do without one of those “multi-hard drive units”? I have 2 16TB hard drives that I’d like to have one as a mirror copy of the first as a backup that updates at the same time but they feel too big to fit into one of those units. But maybe setting up a RAID array could be done programmatically.
I’d love and appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction!
It depends greatly on what kind of machine you are running. Many PC’s have RAID capabilities built into their BIOS. Others will need special RAID software, which will vary by OS. Finally you can buy the multidisk raid enclosures, which may either have their own raid capabilities on the hardware or may use a software solution to go with the hardware.