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Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 month ago by group_hug@sh.itjust.works to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Apparently WD and Seagate stock have already taken a hit at the announcement.

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[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

And it can be fairly invisible in day-day use with 4 drives set up in RAID5.

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

just remember that raid is not a backup

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[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I meant to get back to ask you what you meant by this.

My (novice-level) understanding was R5 would give you redundancy and a way to restore one of your drives if it went down unrecoverably.

Is that just wrong, or it doesn’t count as a backup?

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago

it works thst way if a drive fails, yes, but not if your computer crashes in the wrong way or you accidentally delete a file.

A backup has protection against these.

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