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

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Well, afaik the spinning up and down and related temperature changes do the most damage. I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?

Well, I do it weekly in a specific case but I also have other systems running daily. I guess it also depends on the use case / amount of data written and how damaging it can be if the "hot" drive breaks between the syncs.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Without any cold hard data, this isn't worth discussing.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago

The "cold hard data" is that 100% of the people that would be able to collect this "cold hard data" run their drives 24/7.