Hard Disk Crashes
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Some people have all the bad luck with hard disks ... I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always. A humble question as to where to go? multiple hdd?
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Some people have all the bad luck with hard disks ... I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always. A humble question as to where to go? multiple hdd?
tumbledDown2earth wrote:
I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always.
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Some people have all the bad luck with hard disks ... I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always. A humble question as to where to go? multiple hdd?
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Some people have all the bad luck with hard disks ... I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always. A humble question as to where to go? multiple hdd?
I have a RAID5 NAS with 4 1TB HDDs (from different manufacturers and / or batches) and an automated hourly backup system which maintains multiple copies of important stuff. (In addition I also archive the important stuff to the net, so I have seriously off-site backups - can't get much more offsite than a different continent) HDD's fail. They all do, it's just a case of when. If you can plan for failure, you can limit or remove any damage caused by the fault.
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Some people have all the bad luck with hard disks ... I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always. A humble question as to where to go? multiple hdd?
tumbledDown2earth wrote:
A humble question as to where to go?
That really all depends on how quickly you need to be back up and working when a disk crashes. Raid is the way to go for if you cannot afford to have any downtime(I cannot advise you on which flavour though). I have an SSD C drive on which I pretty much only have the OS. I then have two disks with various partitions on those disks. I have a regular schedule of imaging the C drive and other partitions - the advantage of using partitions is that some partitions change very little and consequently the incremental image size is very small. I have had two disk crashes in my computer owning life and both times I was able to get everything back up and working within 2 hours - make sure you have a spare disk if you need to restore in a rush. This strategy has worked very well for me. I use Acronis for disk imaging.
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I've no patience for RAID 5, so always go 10. (Last time we 5ed, it took an entire day to rebuild a bad disk...) Of course, once you go RAID, you start worrying about the RAID card going bad, and the new card which shows up in the mail 3 days later won't recognize or mount your array.
