I finally admitted that old IT guy was right about RAID 0

A senior tech at my shop, Mark with like 25 years in the field, kept telling me not to run RAID 0 on my home rig back in 2019. I shrugged him off because I wanted those fast read speeds for gaming and video editing. Fast forward to last month when one of my two SSDs died randomly on a Tuesday afternoon. Lost about 2 terabytes of game saves, some client backups I was dumb enough not to move, and a whole folder of modded configs. Mark just looked at me when I told him and said "told ya" with this smug grin. Now I'm running RAID 1 on my new drives and actually doing proper backups to a separate NAS. Anyone else learn this lesson the hard way or am I the only one who had to fry a drive to get it?

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bennett.harper4mo ago

Ngl that old IT guy energy is undefeated.

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gavin2284mo ago

yeah my buddy works at this small law firm and their IT guy is like 70 years old. he still uses a CRT monitor as a second screen and runs everything off windows 7. but last month when their whole server crashed he just walked in, looked at it for five seconds, said "it's the power supply" and fixed it with a spare part he'd been hoarding since 2005. lol the guy is a wizard.

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the_brian4mo ago

Honestly though, diagnosing a bad power supply in five seconds isn't wizardry, it's just the first thing you check.

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willowg884mo ago

Just a heads up, a dead power supply usually doesn't leave any clues on the screen it's the machine not powering on at all, so that was probably a different issue. Still impressive he called it that fast, though.

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