Jul 8, 2019 · RAID is not a backup mechanism; it's a redundancy mechanism, and it does a completely different job – one protects against disk failures, the other protects ...

Feb 20, 2016 · It is important to remember that RAID by itself is not a backup—it merely prevents data loss and interruption of system operation due to a disk ...

Jun 13, 2015 · So for this reason RAID 1 doesn't give you much advantage, but it is nice to have it keep working with no full restore from backup required.

Jun 8, 2013 · RAID is not for backups. It has nothing to do with data backup, aside from keeping you from needing to restore data in the event of hardware failure.

Aug 11, 2015 · First off, you need to be fully aware that RAID is not a backup in the first place. Redundant RAID (which RAID 0 is not) gives you a chance ...

May 11, 2015 · Also, RAID is not a backup. Be sure to use a proper backup solution with a recovery window in line with your business requirements. Six months ...

Nov 2, 2009 · RAID is not a backup solution as it only guards agains hardware failure, only one type of failure that can cause data loss. So that means you ...

Sep 23, 2021 · RAID isn't a backup. RAID protects you against an individual HDD or SSD failure. RAID allows you to spread the risk of a single disk (or ...

Sep 24, 2009 · RAID is not backup! ... RAID guards against one kind of hardware failure. There's lots of failure modes that it doesn't guard against. ... ...and of ...

Nov 11, 2015 · Increased performance. 2. Protection against a disk failure (fault tolerance). When you have a RAID setup, you still need to perform backups.