Basically title. Is it common to use some kind of RAID for backing up other RAIDs or do people just go with single drives?

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    7 months ago

    Well, afaik the spinning up and down and related temperature changes do the most damage. I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?

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      7 months ago

      I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?

      Well, I do it weekly in a specific case but I also have other systems running daily. I guess it also depends on the use case / amount of data written and how damaging it can be if the “hot” drive breaks between the syncs.

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        7 months ago

        The “cold hard data” is that 100% of the people that would be able to collect this “cold hard data” run their drives 24/7.