I am building a NAS in RAID 1 (Mirror) mode. Should I buy 2 of the same drive from the same manufacturer? or does it not matter so much?

  • netburnr
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    1610 months ago

    Raid is not a backup…

    • @wazzupdog
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      10 months ago

      I’m aware, but raid 1 is mirroring which is redundancy, a jbod offers no redundancy so a backup would be even more crucial to protecting from data loss. Also i never said raid is a backup.

        • netburnr
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          210 months ago

          Any performance hit for that config, I’ve never heard of that setup before.

          • @[email protected]
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            010 months ago

            Don’t know myself as I have no use case for that setup, but it is a well known setup since several years. If teh performance was bad it wouldn’t be recommended as an alternative as often.

        • @wazzupdog
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          210 months ago

          That’s a solution i never knew existed, that’s cool as hell.

      • Possibly linux
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        110 months ago

        Can’t you just format jbod with zfs or some other raid solution? I’m sure it depends on hardware but it shouldn’t be rocket science