NAS enclosures help before I purchase

**OldHippieRick** · 08-03-12 at 10:58 AM

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I'm someone that sees it as convenience and never knew of the above issues though all my data would have a back-up it would be a huge inconvenience to set right.

RAID was never meant to be a back-up but was meant to decrease down-time from failing drives for day to day operations.

I don't consider movies/games to be critical info and RAID will be just fine for that situation.

Critical info banking/family pics/valuable stuff needs to be backed-up on a SEPERATE drice/USB and not be connected to a computer unless it's being used at the time.

RAID is NOT a back-up.

08-03-12 at 10:58 AM	#15
OldHippieRick Expert Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 717	Quote: I'm someone that sees it as convenience and never knew of the above issues though all my data would have a back-up it would be a huge inconvenience to set right. RAID was never meant to be a back-up but was meant to decrease down-time from failing drives for day to day operations. I don't consider movies/games to be critical info and RAID will be just fine for that situation. Critical info banking/family pics/valuable stuff needs to be backed-up on a SEPERATE drice/USB and not be connected to a computer unless it's being used at the time. RAID is NOT a back-up.