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Re:Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad by tjoff on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:26PM (#25221899)
The solution for this problem is raid. Way cheaper and far superior in terms of reliability than your solution.

Or if that isn't an option (laptop?) a good backup-solution that that runs daily or more often is also a better and cheaper alternative.

Drives may dail at any time, but they don't age the way your post would suggest.

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Re:Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad by blindm on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:33PM (#25221972)
I've looked into RAID. It seems a bit complicated to use. Is it trivial to create a RAID array in Linux with zero fuss and the whole thing 'just working' with very little knowledge of the filesystem itself other than it keeps your data 'safe' and redundancy baked in?
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Re:Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad by dfinninger on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:49PM (#25222099)
Do you mean “use” or “setup”? RAID is trivial to use. Mount the volume to a directory and use it like normal.

The setup is a bit more involved, but really not that bad. It’s a couple commands to join a few disks in an array and then you make a file system and mount it.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-crea...

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