I’d appreciate a sanity check for what I’m planning to do later today.

I bought a minisforum um890 recently. It has 2 m.2 nvme ports. I have the system running nobara off one drive currently, the other is unfilled. The drive has file system encryption enabled.

I backed up the root folder of my system to a 128gb usb using backintime. I enabled encryption when asked.

I plan to install a second ssd, enable raid 0 striping on the 2 drives in bios, boot from a live USB, then install nobara onto the new raid storage.

After that, i should be able to reinstall backintime then restore my backup right?

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’ve gotta ask, why RAID 0? I can’t think of a use case for that outside of very specific high IO applications in a server farm or something.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Double the capacity, double the speed, double the risk. If you have your entire system backed up, you can throw caution in the wind and risk taking out your entire system when one of the drives dies.

      I used to run two older HDDs in RAID0 to speed up loading games; if one of the HDDs died, I would’ve bought something better in its place, and I could re-download the game whenever I want.

      • remram@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Use LVM, it will give you all the features of RAID 0 and more (encryption, migration, snapshotting, multiple volumes, etc)