Logical and economical storage of image archive

kelpdiver wrote:

Even enterprise class drives have a 5 year rating. They can and often will run long past that, but it defeats the point of "archiving" if you're using drives of that age. It would be another reason to use zfs with frequent disk scrubs (or some sort of automated checksumming) - if you start having to repair blocks each week, it's time to move on.

As for the overall thread, it's the same BS as ever. We really need to have a sticky where we can cover myths like

1) raid = backups

or my favorite

2) raid is too hard and expensive

and

3) sneakernetting my offsite backup once a month is actually an intelligent idea.