Yes, but they're using it in a consumer setting. That was the whole point of my comment. It sounds like they may have 2 identical RAID controllers, which means they might have a spare. However, if one dies, they'd be looking at obtaining another spare, migrating their data to a new setup, or risking complete data loss.
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You're right, hardware RAID still has some use for businesses, but it's generally a bad idea for consumers. The main reason is the procedure if the RAID controller fails. In commercial applications they have spare, compatible controllers, so a quick hardware swap and you're back up and running, you don't even need to rebuild the array. However, consumers generally don't have a spare controller, and if they don't, they can't just get any controller, they need a compatible one or the array is lost. If a system running a software RAID has a hardware failure, the array can be moved to a new host and mdadm can rebuild the array without needing specific hardware.
I feel like this is a symptom of Police Chiefs/Sheriffs being elected in the US of A. They need to win a popularity contest to keep their job.
I don't think this is about barges vs. trains, but simply trying to reduce the number of trucks.
A nurse would be just as effective for most ailments.
Nurse Practitioner? Sure.
Registered Nurse? No, they don't have the training for it. Some have picked up skills through practical experience, but that's an exception to the rule.
EDIT just want to clarify nurses don't have the training in diagnosis, similar to how doctors don't have much training in care.
And as we know all too well from history, enabling other freedoms (women's suffrage, marriage equality, or now getting around by bike) disrupts those already established freedoms!
You really can't compare any other country to the Great Firewall of China.
The article doesn't really explain it, but assume this is because you can't use 3rd party app stores on Fitbit devices? So to avoid opening to competition, they're removing anything that could be interpreted as a store?
“I am aware that your family has suffered a trauma but the answer does not lie in leaving the Most Holy Eucharist,” Deshotel wrote in his excommunication decree.
By excommunicating him, you've banned him from receiving Eucharist. He didn't leave.
Typically, mortgage brokers ask for a Notice of Assessment to prove income, I don't think they'd use it to confirm funds for a down payment. I'm not all that familiar with the FHSA, but it seems like an extension on what we have with the HBP, which lets first time home buyers borrow against RRSPs (retirement saving) for a down payment. In both of these cases, they are savings accounts you open with a financial institution. For the HBP, you need to prove these funds with bank statements, and I would think the same thing would go for the FHSA.
"I was in the process of obtaining a mortgage and the lender required the most recent notice of assessment," McIntyre told CTVNews.ca in an email. "It has been over a one month delay so far."
Since 2023 isn't due yet, I'm not sure why a broker would require it? If you don't have your 2023 NOA, the most most recent NOA is your 2022. I know my income went up mid-year, and my broker just asked for my latest NOA, paystub, and a salary verification letter from my employer.
It's sounds like what you're looking for is backup, and RAID is not backup, it's redundancy to maintain uptime (as well as data integrity, and in some cases performance). I'd highly recommend you look into backup options, with best case being a 3-2-1 backup strategy.
To be fair, I'm being a little hypocritical. I've been working on my backup strategy for years and still don’t have any remote backups yet. Personally, I have a JBOD system, with 8 drives ranging from 2TB to 8TB, so my setup might be a bit complicated for your purposes. I’m not worried about uptime, and am focused on data integrity. I’m not using actual RAID because in the case of a catastrophic failure, I don’t want to lose all my data. I use snapRAID to create some redundancy, and I pool my data drives using mergerfs.
If you are still interested in RAID, I would recommend staying away from hardware RAID as I’ve commented in other places of this post. It has it’s place in data centres but really doesn’t make sense for consumers anymore. There is a lot of good advice in the rest of the comments about RAID, so I’ll summarize my thoughts. If you only plan on having 2 drives, RAID 1 is a good option, though it’s generally used for it’s write performance and that’s probably not necessary on a media server. My current server is running on decade old, lower-end, consumer hardware, and even in that extreme case, media sometimes takes a second to start 1080p content remotely. If you want to add drives and are willing to expand in redundant pairs, you you can either add another RAID layer (RAID 1+0), or pool the partitions together. If you want to be able to expand by single drives/have more than 50% of your potential storage be realized, you could look at RAID 5/6 or ZFS/btrfs. Note that for RAID 5/6, drives need to be equal size.