Basically title. Is it common to use some kind of RAID for backing up other RAIDs or do people just go with single drives?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Yep, all RAID has the same kinds of issues - largely sensitivity to X number of drive failures. Which is part of why we see RAID 6 (double parity), Mirroring, RAID 1-0, etc, all as mechanisms to provide compensation for disk failure within the RAID.

    In the SMB, RAID 10 seems to be the favorite approach today for NAS/Virtualization hosts (ESX, etc), with backup going to a cloud provider such as iland or barracuda.