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Standard reminder to home / small biz RAID users: it is an availability solution, not a replacement for backups. It lets you have fewer service outages connected to disk failures. There are many more ways to lose your data than physical media failures.

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100%. I much prefer snapshots. All of my data loss situations have been in accidental deletion / formatting situations which raid does nothing for.

I can’t see any use for raid as a consumer other than raid 0 for speed.

Snapshots also aren't a replacement for backups, as they reside on the same media/device.

They can be if the snapshots are copied to another device though

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