• quint21@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    something comes from the side and messes up your data in a different way than you’ve foreseen.

    This happened to me years ago. Naïvely thinking SnapRAID protected me against the likelihood of a drive failure. I wasn’t prepared for two drives failing simultaneously due to a power supply catastrophically failing (smoke, sparks) and frying the drives as it died.

    It was an expensive lesson: I had to send one drive off for data recovery, and after I got it back I used SnapRAID to restore the remaining drive. Independent backups (and multiple parity drives) is the way.