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Cake day: November 8th, 2023

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  • I would highly recommend investing in a NAS or even a DAS which has been set up with RAID 5 or similar. You can set this up yourself using something like TrueNAS or UnRaid and an old computer. The advantage of having a RAID setup is if one drive fails you don’t lose everything and you can just replace the dead drive and allow the data to be repopulated.

    I’ve been using a Synology 8 bay NAS for almost 10 years and had one drive fail which I replaced without losing any data. That said having a 16TB drive as your primary drive and then having the other drives setup in a RAID configuration as a backup for the other drive is the better option as it will allow for backups should the 16TB crash.