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Apparently WD and Seagate stock have already taken a hit at the announcement.

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

just remember that raid is not a backup

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I meant to get back to ask you what you meant by this.

My (novice-level) understanding was R5 would give you redundancy and a way to restore one of your drives if it went down unrecoverably.

Is that just wrong, or it doesn’t count as a backup?

it works thst way if a drive fails, yes, but not if your computer crashes in the wrong way or you accidentally delete a file.

A backup has protection against these.