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minus-squaremeteokr@community.adiquaints.moelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down13·6 months agoThe person I replied to said I’m uncomfortable storing 16TB worth of data on one drive as a criticism of using a single 32TB drive. I argue that a single 32TB drive is less risk than using 2 16TB drives. Am I wrong?
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-26 months agoChrist alive. No. Actually. The 32TB drive is a single point of failure for all your data. Splitting it means you have 2 points of failure but for only half your data. From an integrity and availability standpoint the two disk solution, while wildly ridiculous and dumb as fuck, is actually better. Both solutions are ridiculous and dumb and are not sufficient backup.
The person I replied to said
as a criticism of using a single 32TB drive.
I argue that a single 32TB drive is less risk than using 2 16TB drives. Am I wrong?
Christ alive.
No. Actually. The 32TB drive is a single point of failure for all your data.
Splitting it means you have 2 points of failure but for only half your data.
From an integrity and availability standpoint the two disk solution, while wildly ridiculous and dumb as fuck, is actually better.
Both solutions are ridiculous and dumb and are not sufficient backup.