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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Hmm, how about RAID-0 with another 1TB SSD (albeit be extra vigilant with backup and replication)?
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That is an excellent point... I might end up doing that but in general I really don't like raid 0 arrays at all. I actually have a fast pcie raid 0 on my system across 4 25gig chips running at almost 1000megs a second I use for video editing and conversions etc.. but I never leave anything on it. You have doubled your chance of data loss.
My current backup strategy is pretty lame given that I am an IT professional. I simply rsync my data manually every week or two to external hard drives stored in a safe.
I have been looking at a network backup using Urbackup. I install and support it for clients. Absolutely stellar open source backup solution. but right now my redundancy isn't where it should be much less using a raid 0.
I keep cruising ebay for a used data server or NAS I can afford with 15 to 24 TB of redundant space on it. lol. maybe i will find that deal soon.
Performance and simplicity come at a price and right now im having problems affording that. It's totally doable if I go to a much more complicated solution with less performance. That's kinda what I'm doing right now with most of it and I'm really tired of it.
edited march 2018 to change raid 1 to raid 0.. Everywhere I had said raid 1 I meant raid 0
also though not for my books I had both a backup drive and then the main drive the data was used from fail with full loss of all data the other day... I could have fixed it but was trying to buy a larger hard drive rather than just replace the smaller one that died. I put it off because of lack of money. Just the time invested in the lost data was priceless. Don't do as I did.