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

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, if get a few bad sectors suddenly you're spending most of a day backing things up.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You should've been backing things up already.

"If you have one, you have none".

Without proper backup your data is just waiting to disappear at the first unrecoverable failure.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Backing up with an increased frequency to mitigate the lost time.

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

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

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

just remember that raid is not a backup

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

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.