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[โ€“] sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, to all of you: I get it, more is better, same for me.

But it's still worth starting if you can only get your hands on two used drives to run in raid 1.

[โ€“] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Exactly. I've got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way...)

What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective (secondhand, and WDs RMA procedure is STRICT.) , so now I'm stuck with a half expansion I don't know what to do with and it's kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.

My media collection isn't on a mirror or backed up or anything because it's naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.