No matter which drive is used you can't call it "server grade" if it's non-redundant, i.e no RAID.
Spinny drives are too unreliable to trust important data to just 1 of them, no sane server admin uses 1 drive... and anyone who cares about their backups buys a RAID NAS system, at least RAID 1.
IMHO companies which punt things such as time capsule and claim to protect your data with just 1 drive are flat out dishonest, what's the good of a time capsule style version history if the single drive it's stored on dies... OK you still have the current copy, but not much use if you then need those old versions is it...
Arghhhh the ease with which average consumers can be conned!
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No matter which drive is used you can't call it "server grade" if it's non-redundant, i.e no RAID.
Spinny drives are too unreliable to trust important data to just 1 of them, no sane server admin uses 1 drive... and anyone who cares about their backups buys a RAID NAS system, at least RAID 1.
IMHO companies which punt things such as time capsule and claim to protect your data with just 1 drive are flat out dishonest, what's the good of a time capsule style version history if the single drive it's stored on dies... OK you still have the current copy, but not much use if you then need those old versions is it...
Arghhhh the ease with which average consumers can be conned!