@Oksana said in RAID 5 vs RAID 6: Which One Is Actually Safe in 2025?:

SM_Parity RAIDs_ RAID-5 and [email protected]

Parity RAID is still one of the best ways to balance cost, performance, and redundancy. But the real question in 2025 isn’t how RAID works, it’s whether RAID 5 is still safe or if RAID 6 should be the new default.
Our latest article by Vladyslav Savchenko for StarWind explains how rebuild times, URE risk, and drive size impact reliability, so you know when single parity is fine and when dual parity is essential. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/xj

@scottalanmiller You might want to chime in here.

We've covered the issues with parity RAIDs on old style HDD here so much. No where in the article did I see mention of the glaring differences between HDD and SSD/NVMe.

We've been playing the Duck Detective series.

Like others have mentioned

www.xbyte.com is one choice.

The other one is:

www.savemyserver.com

@Oksana Thank you for the article. Hopefully i am able to deploy this soon.

@scottalanmiller What is the best backup strategy?
Snapshot of VMs and workstations + backups of both, and comply with the 3-2-1 rule?
Or is there a better alternative?

@travisdh1 said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

@scottalanmiller said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

We use Vultr and are very happy. We've moved away from TacticalRMM to FoxRMM, our in house product (aka SodiumSuite.)

Vultr is one I've used in the past, but the pricing is on-par with Linode.

One major difference now that Linode has been bought by Akamai is the storage IOPS. I've run a couple tests, and they are using some sort of SAN instead of VSAN now. IOPS always max out at what you'd expect from a 200Gb network connection.

I might have to try out OVH Cloud. The price for 4vcorse and 8GB RAM starts at ~$5.00/month instead of the $25.00/month I'm currently paying at Linode.

Vultr is using NVMe locally for nodes as it should be. Blazing fast.