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@blablarg18 Thanks, it actually gives me some hope to know that a good immigrant stopped the bad one

It feels like in recent days there have been multiple stabbing attacks every day...

16/02 French police officer sustained life-threatening injuries after being attacked with machetes in Paris, suspect shot.
16/02 French police shoot a 17 year old who attacked them with a knife in the town of Annecy (yes twice in the same day).
16/02 Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham stormed by an immigrant gang of ~40 people after their 16 year old friend was stabbed the day before.
15/02 14 year old killed & 5 others wounded by a Syrian in the stabbing spree in Villach, Austria.
15/02 Two Israelis stabbed by a Gazan asylum seeker in Athens, Greece after hearing them speak Hebrew.
15/02 Nigerian asylum seeker (who had a criminal record for brawling and raping a woman) stabbed to death in Dublin, another seriously wounded.
14/02 Three men stabbed in Stratford, East London (18 year old arrested).
13/02 Man attacked with a knife by a Turkish consulate employee in London while burning a Quran (they were BOTH charged).
13/02 North-Africans stabbing each other in Italy.
11/02 Man tries to stab a Polish priest in Winnipeg, Canada.
09/02 Three men injured in stabbing attack in Stoneybatter area of Dublin, 29 year old Brazilian migrant charged.
08/02 Two orthodox Jews injured in stabbing attack near a synagogue in Crown Heights, NYC.

And I'm pretty sure I've seen more in the news that I'm missing now. The West is falling apart...

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@raphjd Thank you for clarifying! I'll keep that in mind for future reference, though I hope there's not going to be a next time but there probably will...

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They definitely hate diversity of viewpoints. They love non-white people but only if they share their beliefs. If you're a non-white conservative you're basically a traitor to your race. These people are the most racist of all... They just use sympathy for other races as a marketing tool for their ideology

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More shocking videos:

The more I see from the "religion of peace", the more I am convinced that it is an ideology of pure evil and hate.

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Surprising that sanity is still possible in the UK legal system. My guess is that the ruling will simply be ignored while the indoctrinated politicians in parliament work on changing the law ASAP.

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@raphjd said in Top CA teacher gets 30 years for sexual abuse:

Before that, most people seemed to agree that pedos were evil. There was a lot of comparison in how women pedos were treated compared to men pedos.

I don't think you're ever gonna get much debate on pedos since that's the only permissible standpoint. Anything else is probably flirting with a forum ban.

It's good to see that female pedos are also getting harsh punishments, and to see it enter the public eye more. I think far too often women get a pass on these things, just like they do on any kind of sexual crime. I have no shortage of stories from my straight guy friends about non-consensual things girls did to them that would get a guy years in prison.

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@blablarg18 Thank you for proving my point. There really isn't any point in trying to have a conversation about this topic with someone like you. All you get is outrage and false accusations.

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Server engineer here.

There's a few different options. Unfortunately there is no one perfect solution, they all have their pro's and cons.

RAID

Good for performance (not needed for this application)
Inflexible (need to rebuild entire array if you want to change it which means you need the same amount of free space somewhere else to offload the data while you do it + stuck to buying the same drives / size)
Not great for power consumption (all drives must spin to access any data)
Not great wear (all drives wear out at the same rate)
Not a substitute for backups (it's only redundant on the disk level, doesn't protect you from failures in other hardware or accidental deletions etc)
Not particularly efficient: you shouldn't use RAID 5 for large drives (4TB+) and even RAID 6 isn't great for larger drives, so then you need to look at RAID 10 (or 0+1) which only gives you half your effective disk space and you still need backups on top of that.

All in all RAID is not a great solution for (cold) data storage. I used to have 8x8TB + 8x4TB in RAID 6 for my data storage but I have moved away from that approach. Great while it works, shit when it inevitably starts to fail due to age.

ZFS

Probably better than RAID for this depending on how you set it up, but can still be a pain to manage. Won't go too deep into this since it's probably too advanced/technical for most people here.

Separate drives (JBOD / mergerfs)

Much better for data storage.

Only wears out individual disks when you actually use them (particularly important when you also seed from these drives) - so also better for power consumption
Flexible: you can add and remove drives at will, of any types and sizes (which means you can gradually upgrade and retire old disks), and you only have to offload a single disk worth of data at a time (as opposed to the whole array) + your computer can still treat the whole thing as 1 big disk without having to worry about what goes where (but you have the option if you want that)
No inherent redundancy, you definitely still need backups

Commercial devices (Synology etc)

Probably the best option for people who aren't very technical. Offers all of the above options in a user-friendly package with lots of features.

Note on backups

Ideally you want your backups to be in cold storage, and have them sync periodically. Better for disk lifespan (+ you don't want the backup disk to be worn out around the same time as the main disk), better for power consumption, gives you restore ability in case of accidental fuckups, also helps to protect you from freak accidents (power surges, lightning strikes, ...). Having them connected but spun down is good, having them completely disconnected is better (but of course requires manual interaction to sync).

Note on seeding

If you seed, designate 1 disk for it so you don't wear out your entire storage array.

I can go deeper into the subject if you have any questions but I don't want to overload you any more than I already have.