Hey all, I've been looking everywhere for a definitive answer, and no matter where I look, I get very inconsistent/conflicting information, so I want to know peoples' thoughts.
I have 4x 18tb internal hard drives for my Plex server, and a separate m.2 for the operating system. Is it a windows PC, and I use it only for Plex service and for streaming games from my gaming PC.
As of now, only one hard drive is in use, and it is almost filled.
I want to have two hard drives acting as the storage, and the two other hard drives as a backup for the main hard drives. People say that RAID isn't actually a backup, or a recovery tool, I hear other people say that cloning or mirroring the drive will also pick up read/write errors and won't actually keep data any safer.
So what is the best method for having a redundant backup of large quantities of data? I thought I could use the Windows hard drive manager thing and create two "storage spaces" that would have one hard drive as main and one as a backup for each pair. Am I overthinking things? I just want two hard drives, with two acting as full backups, but idk if that plan is a bad one, given all I've read.
Thank you to anyone with insight.