@Rapsey-0 Thank you so much - you just helped a lot with the whole RAID thing... I just bought the raid 2 drive enclosure for my personal files.... I like the raid system because it is noticeably faster, but Im going to have to have a third drive to backup my raid files.
Question - I thought if one of the two raid drives fail I can still access the data on one of them? Then put in a new fresh replacement for the other and it rebuilds? Correct?
But I can still access the data if one drive failed?
For my Fun files I just got a 6 stackable enclosure with each drive having a mirror so essentially 3 hard drives with 3 mirrors. I went with this because I thought about the wear of a Raid system so its interesting you pointed that out.
having one seeding disk is brilliant.... im looking at the seedboxes as a better option and not seed from any of my local drives.
Ill have to look more into this JBOD / mergerfs - is all data backed up on other drives so if one fails you havent lost anything?
Im mainly concerned about loss prevention which best practices the deeper i dug the more they are like yeah essentially you need THREE backups with one offsite or in another spot but I dont want todo cloud for any of this.
The cold storage extra drive has been my normal MO up to this point but the data has just grown exponentially.
I want to keep one cold storage disk with periodic updates.... possibly some sort of interim secondary backup till each is sync'd. Then with my new 2 disk 8tb RAID i love it just for my personal files and how quick it is, but I think im going to have to have a third disk cold storage with periodic updates.
Such great info from you thank you very much!!!

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