On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 06:18:16PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
Not only that, the system is simply unavailable until the file are restored. This can take hours or even days.
Much more likely weeks in my case, but that's fine. This NAS has been running for 5 years with one interruption to service and that was a mainboard failure. So I would expect the downtime from a dead disk to occur once every 5 years or less, which also correlates with my experiences with all my other personal systems (except my first attempt of a NAS, which had more frequent disk failures which I think were caused by thermal problems. I did use RAID-1 in that system.) In other words, I understand the risks and impacts for RAID or not RAID in my personal NAS, and the inconvenience of RAID far outweighs the inconvenience of downtime when one (or both) of the 2 disks fail, since downtime is not a big deal for this system for me and the frequency I expect to face it is very low. I would make, and have made, different judgement calls for business systems in my professional life, of course. And my VPS is doubtless RAID-backed by the ISP that supplies it; downtime for that would be much more of an inconvenience for me than my NAS. -- Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
