Raid Alternatives?

Question

I'm looking at replacing my current drives in my desktop. I was wondering what options are out there other than RAID for data protection. I'm not looking at a NAS currently, but I've heard there are some file/object storage technologies out there being used in place of RAID. I'm not sure if that's applicable/advantageous on a single desktop or not.Looking for options that preferably support encryption and indexing.

eternityforest · Accepted Answer

I think my ideal setup would be RAID in the computer itself(Although that's harder on laptops), a NAS with a non-redundant disk as an incremental target, and another 2 disks as a RAID pair just for storing large files, backed up to the backup disk.
That way everything has triple redundancy overall, and incrementals, and there's some archive space for stuff too big to fit on a laptop, but the incrementals don't have redundancy, and you never backup a backup(Which would break the deduplication feature or Borg).
What I actually do in reality, is try to keep everything important on my laptop drive, which I back up with Vorta to a USB hard disk, and some small important things live in Syncthing folders that are mirrored with my phone and tablet, because none of that is cheap.

ahazred8ta · Answer

For a single desktop, ironing out your incremental backup scheme first should come before worrying about raid.

sacrosanct · Answer

ZFS