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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Raid for use with MacOS/Windows/Linux (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the long-term, I'm undecided if I want to run a RAID 5 on disks hooked up to my windows system, MacOS or Linux. Considering this, could a DAS, with disks formatted as exfat, be a solid option for me? Any downsides to storing data on exfat or for running raid on exfat?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

exFAT solves the cross compatibility issue by removing most features other modern file system have. Fine for some users but not necessarily something I would recommend to someone with a drive array.

On top of that those USB RAID enclosures kinda suck. Unreliable, minimal status info and rebuilds tend to be tricky at best. You should not use them unless you are forced to.

A NAS is likely a much better option and they do not cost that much extra compared to a ~4bay RAID DAS.