I have a Norco rack mount server with an Areca RAID card. I currently have 6 2TB drives in RAID 6. They are Hitachi "green" desktop drives. The controller died a few months ago, and I RMAd it. Once I got it back, all was well. I didn't lose ANY data. I think people saying RAID card failures and drive failures is way overrated. From what I see, people are saying parity is unsafe. I just don't get it.
My future plans are a Supermicro case, 2 Xeons, tons of RAM, a bunch of LSI HBAs, 24 drives (haven't decided on the size yet, the shortage is being played well by the corporations), and two a pool of 2 striped raidz2 arrays (like RAID 60).
I'm not much of a fan of backups. I am a home user and my data is not worth the cost of a second server with another 24 drives. A tolerance of 4 drive failures will be plenty peace of mind for me.
Cloud storage is BS unless you have some unlimited gigabit fiber ISP. Even then, certain data can become contraband and be deleted.
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I have a Norco rack mount server with an Areca RAID card. I currently have 6 2TB drives in RAID 6. They are Hitachi "green" desktop drives. The controller died a few months ago, and I RMAd it. Once I got it back, all was well. I didn't lose ANY data. I think people saying RAID card failures and drive failures is way overrated. From what I see, people are saying parity is unsafe. I just don't get it. My future plans are a Supermicro case, 2 Xeons, tons of RAM, a bunch of LSI HBAs, 24 drives (haven't decided on the size yet, the shortage is being played well by the corporations), and two a pool of 2 striped raidz2 arrays (like RAID 60). I'm not much of a fan of backups. I am a home user and my data is not worth the cost of a second server with another 24 drives. A tolerance of 4 drive failures will be plenty peace of mind for me. Cloud storage is BS unless you have some unlimited gigabit fiber ISP. Even then, certain data can become contraband and be deleted.