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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Chainweasel to c/[email protected]
 

My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] meekah 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ZFS is essentially a raid implementation. The principle is the same. From what I hear it's probably the most popular implementation right now, and for good reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's a fair bit more than that, but yes in a sense it is RAID if you are using it across more than one drive (as you should). You can use ZFS on a single drive though, so it's a middle ground situation.

The main thing is to avoid hardware RAID controllers unless you have a really good reason, and that's generally what most people refer to as RAID. Generally folks are moving to JBOD setups with filesystems like ZFS now though

[–] meekah 1 points 6 months ago

Ah well, I was not aware that people usually mean hardware when they say raid. Thanks for clearing that up.