▲ 394 ▼ 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 70 comments fedilink hide all child comments Apparently WD and Seagate stock have already taken a hit at the announcement.
[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago (2 children) just remember that raid is not a backup permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent