I recently got a few (5) hard drives to turn my home server into a NAS with trueNAS scale and my idea is to have 4 usable and 1 for redundancy, my question is… How does RAID work, like what is RAID 0, RAID 5, software RAID etc, and does any of that even matter for my use case?

  • @xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 year ago

    0: “i don’t care about my data.”

    1: “i REALLY care about my data”

    5: “i’ll trade you one drive now, for my data if one of the drives dies later”