I have a 2 bay NAS, and I was planning on using 2x 18tb HDDs in raid 1. I was planning on purchasing 3 of these drives so when one fails I have the replacement. (I am aware that you should purchase at different times to reduce risk of them all failing at the same time)

Then I setup restic.

It makes backups so easy that I am wondering if I should even bother with raid.

Currently I have ~1TB of backups, and with restics snapshots, it won’t grow to be that big anyways.

Either way, I will be storing the backups in aws S3. So is it still worth it to use raid? (I also will be storing backups at my parents)

  • Shimitar@feddit.itEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Yes, I would still do raid. Because a disk fail will not cause a blackout. Much better than have your server offline waiting to replace disk and restore backup.

    And no way you can backup 18tb in 1tb, restic or no restic.