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    2 drives NAS - fundamentally wrong concept?

    This actually is a very complex subject. In short: it depends what data, and what RAID configuration. There are many scenarios when RAID slows things down. Google it if you are curious, but the only single and straightforward answer is... it depends.
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    Questions for a Home NAS

    "RAID is not backup". I always cringe when I hear this triviality. RAID is a piece of hardware (and software which controls it), backup is copy (or a process of copying) selected data to a physical media. What people using this triviality typically mean is: never trust that it is sufficient...
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    2 drives NAS - fundamentally wrong concept?

    You are correct. However I was not really referring to using 2 drives NAS as two independent volumes. What you describe is conceptually the same as using two 1 drive NAS-es, a multiple disks NAS in a non-RAID configuration, or even a set of external, single drives which are not NASes. If one...
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    2 drives NAS - fundamentally wrong concept?

    Is 2 drives NAS concept fundamentally wrong? Single drive NAS relies on one hard disk to be healthy. 3+ drives use one of RAID levels tolerating one or more drives failure or data corruption. 2 drives concept is based on incorrect assumption that SMART and/or NAS is capable to detect every disk...
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