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minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-22 months agoChrist alive. No. Actually. The 32TB drive is a single point of failure for all your data. Splitting it means you have 2 points of failure but for only half your data. From an integrity and availability standpoint the two disk solution, while wildly ridiculous and dumb as fuck, is actually better. Both solutions are ridiculous and dumb and are not sufficient backup.
Christ alive.
No. Actually. The 32TB drive is a single point of failure for all your data.
Splitting it means you have 2 points of failure but for only half your data.
From an integrity and availability standpoint the two disk solution, while wildly ridiculous and dumb as fuck, is actually better.
Both solutions are ridiculous and dumb and are not sufficient backup.