Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhen can we expect 500TB drives to be available?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down111
arrow-up197arrow-down1imageWhen can we expect 500TB drives to be available?lemmy.worldAllah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI guess you’re expected to set those up in a RAID 5 or 6 (or similar) setup to have redundancy in case of failure. Rebuilding after a failure would be a few days of squeaky bum time though.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAt raid6, rebuilds are 4.2 roentgens, not great but they’re not horrible. Keep old backups.but the data isn’t irreplaceable. Raid5 is suicide if you care about your data.
I guess you’re expected to set those up in a RAID 5 or 6 (or similar) setup to have redundancy in case of failure.
Rebuilding after a failure would be a few days of squeaky bum time though.
At raid6, rebuilds are 4.2 roentgens, not great but they’re not horrible. Keep old backups.but the data isn’t irreplaceable.
Raid5 is suicide if you care about your data.