Poll: hdd redundancy

vishvish Hosting ProviderOG
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Hello,

I'm gauging deployment strategies and would like to get your opinion on the following

lowend storage redundancy
  1. when buying storage I prefer to26 votes
    1. pay a little more and have some redundancy like raid5 or raidz1
      80.77%
    2. pay a little less and take my chances without any redundancy
      19.23%
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  • imokimok OG
    edited February 21

    If stuff fails too quickly, I'm forced to invest more time fixing it.

    And time is precious.

    I would pay a bit more for redundancy.

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  • somiksomik OG

    @imok said:
    If stuff fails too quickly, I'm forced to invest more time fixing it.

    And time is precious.

    I would pay a bit more for redundancy.

    RAID is not backup. RAID failure = disk change = RAID array rebuilding, which can fail and take the remaining disk with it. So I see RAID as a 2x chance of fail. I prefer full disk backups or data backups.

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  • yoursunnyyoursunny OG

    Mentally strong people use RAID-0.

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  • havochavoc OGContent WriterSenpai

    Depends on what "little more" means, but I'd lean towards less on the basis that I wouldn't really look towards LES class providers for mission critical data

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  • vishvish Hosting ProviderOG

    @havoc said:
    Depends on what "little more" means, but I'd lean towards less on the basis that I wouldn't really look towards LES class providers for mission critical data

    that was my thought as well. the data I usually deploy on les provider is A-not senstive and B-not critical

    that's the point of this poll. it seems folks would prefer some redundancy

  • somiksomik OG

    @vish said:

    @havoc said:
    Depends on what "little more" means, but I'd lean towards less on the basis that I wouldn't really look towards LES class providers for mission critical data

    that was my thought as well. the data I usually deploy on les provider is A-not senstive and B-not critical

    that's the point of this poll. it seems folks would prefer some redundancy

    Well, I guess people who want RAID are still putting mission critical data on LES providers and not keeping any backups... Live and learn I guess? :lol:

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  • host_chost_c Hosting Provider

    @imok said: I would pay a bit more for redundancy.

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  • NetralexNetralex Hosting Provider

    Depends on what you're storing, my movie collection is zraid1 with 4 disks, but for more important stuff I would go zraid2 with 5 disks. For big temp storage of stuff I don't care about just no raid at all.

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