The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/eight13atnight on 2024-12-06 03:01:05.

So I bought these two media proboxes. I knew they didn’t do hardware raid but I stupidly didn’t think to check about macOS software raid. Evidently that can only do raid0 and raid1.

I have 6 x 12tb recertified drives heading my way bc I planned to do 2 x 24tb raid5 setups. But alas I can’t do that plan anymore.

I’m not excited about any of the raid5 hardware enclosures out there. I had a NAS setup since 2015 and frankly I’m just over all the management of those devices. Constant software upgrades and dealing w all the firewall issues. Proprietary OS is just annoying to constant maintain.

Do you think I should just run two X 24tb raid0 drives and have separate backups of them or just return the whole lot and start again? Or maybe I was thinking do two X 24tb raid0 in a single enclosure (2x12tb times two) and then have carbon copy cloner just manage keeping them mirrored. That way I’d have two copies across four drives and I feel a lot less stressed about that. Ofc have a single drive backup as well bc that’s hoarding.

Someone is going to tell me “raid is not a backup” which I get but it’s at least less risky than a single platter kicking the bucket.