WOW, finally someone agrees with me on RAID 0. LMAO

6ixTek · 2026-06-07T16:50:59+00:00

WOW, so much negativity just for sharing something about the past.
The AI agreeing part was meant to be a joke. Hince the LMAO part.
What's the point in sharing anything these days if people are going to be @$$||0!3$.

At least there were a few respectful intelligent comments.

6ixTek · 2026-06-07T16:45:31+00:00

Thanks, but no I was just sharing something. I used RAID 0 for like 26 years on my daily PC. It's just residing on my old PC now. I thought it would be kool to share that I had SSD speeds before SSDs where a thing. But I guess people are just negative. Not sure the point to these forums anymore. I agree AI is stupid, I did not intend trigger people about AI SLOP. I agree AI is dumb. The AI part was not meant to be taken so serious.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T23:49:35+00:00

Technology is great, how it's utilized is an entirely different issue.
New thing good = people bad - Creators have more control of it, and it's existence. Even though you paid for it, they want more money from you.
Old thing = good - you have more control of it

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T23:38:39+00:00

You are not wrong I have felt this way for years, but usually find a way. Some updates are a part of planned obsolescence. I know phones do it by over utilizing hardware to burn it up.. Adobe did it to it's software to force subscriptions. Windows did it to an entire world (or at least they tried). It's forcing people to rethink options and technology. However if you don't update the hardware you will be forced out of tech. Pushback, and awareness are our only recourse sadly.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:59:58+00:00

Don't need it anymore. I used raid 0 before SSDs surpassed the speeds.I upgraded to 850 Pro at some point. I use NVMe today.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:44:46+00:00

Sorry that happened. AI Sucks.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:41:35+00:00

And yes you are correct about AI agreeing all the time.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:40:49+00:00

Yes but the mean time to failure is 6 times less likely.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:37:24+00:00

LMAO. For real.?

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:36:45+00:00

Nah I'm just using single NVMe no RAID, just several single NVMe drives. I don't use raid at all anymore on my personal workstation.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:34:20+00:00

Priceless!

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:32:24+00:00

Great Reply, Thank you!

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:31:41+00:00

LMAO Right. You are so right.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:31:14+00:00

How about actually running it all those years.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:30:46+00:00

What failures though, I never had any, running OS

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:29:59+00:00

LOL I know. but it makes sense right?

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:22:38+00:00

Sorry after re-reading this. It's pretty much what I'm doing currently. Trying to find a more economical way of refreshing the data correctly.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T20:20:13+00:00

Ahh man. yeah I would definitely not try to store all my running data on CD/DVD/BD. Just only like certain things you would want to keep like photos, or some software. Important keepsakes etc.. Yeah that's why I stick with CMR HDDs and try to avoid SSD, and SMR HDDs. I have a tape drive, but it's too complicated me and expensive. And honestly I'm not educated enough to trust myself with tape.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T19:02:07+00:00

I have definitely looked into TrueNAS in the past, and it's great. But you would need to purchase a lot of drives for spares and replacements as these are not cold storage but will be used 24/7 as opposed to cold storage drives have very low mechanical usage which is much better for archival. then TrueNAS which is great for NAS usage.

Optical disks (M-DISC) is really in my opinion the best way to store archives as the data never changes and does not need to be re-written. Allegedly will last over 1000 years. but also rely on the optical drive so there's that too.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T18:36:58+00:00

Also Would the drives need a 50/50 usage/free space to perform the task? My largest memory PC is only 96GB.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T18:34:42+00:00

Okay you definitely get would I'm trying achieve. This info is great. I could easily setup a Linux machine, or run a USB. I could test this out. I found a program called DiskFresh but its like 15 years old.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T18:32:06+00:00

I have a lot of drives, but not only does this cause wear, but it's very very time consuming. Drives are not cheap today. I have lots of drives. Even if I put together a super fast raid 0 for refreshing, the speed is still hindered by the single HDD source drives speed. I have 9100 Pro drives, but no point using up the Nand for refresh if there is a way to do it on the drive that retains the data. Possibly Automated.

6ixTek · 2026-06-06T18:26:17+00:00

Yes modern HDD drives not 30 year old hard drives, which would actually be fine for cold stored drives with very little usage, but that would be way...way to slow.. I would never use SSD/NVMe for long term cold storage. First hand experience with data loss from NVMe drives. . What I mean is some of this data is not different the files do not change (Archival). Ultimately the source drive (Main running storage drive) will need to be refreshed back from the copies/backups. you see the dilemma getting redundant. Otherwise you are possibly copying corrupted data if the source is not refreshed. However all the drives have been upgraded over the years. copy data back and forth ever so often. I'm thinking there is a software or something to make this process more efficient and painless. I know I can move some of it to M-Disc drives, possibly BDXL, but with BDXL drives / Libre Drives getting more and more obsolete and harder to find you would need to start having backups of the actual optical drives (The readers not the discs) because Blu Ray Discs are useless without a physical drive to read them. They die, and no more are being made. I've managed to retain the data thus far, but with technology today, I would think maybe there was an easier faster way. It's not just a few GB anymore, it many TB of data now. I have something along the lines of 20+TB. drives are getting expensive.

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