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loeg on Jan 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018

Especially if you're an individual person with a non-raid6 / hot spare system, you might pay a premium for a lower failure rate (standalone drive, RAID1, or RAID5, for example).

walrus01 on Jan 22, 2019 [–]

Although in the year 2019 it would be pretty reckless to use RAID5 without hotspare. Or even RAID5 with hotspare. This has been true for a long, long time:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=why+raid5+stops+working&ie=...

loeg on Jan 22, 2019 | [–]

I'm certainly not advocating for it.

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