Greetings Storage wizards ๐งโโ๏ธ. I have a 16TB exfat formatted hard drive with various personal pictures and videos which I would like to have backed up somehow. I've thought about a couple different things:
1. I've thought about buying 3 new 16TB drives and setting up RAID 5 or 6 as this would also give me some additional space addition to redundancy for my data.
- Here I've heard a bit of back and fourth between whether or not I should go for 5 or 6 based on rebuild times and potential URE issues with RAID 5 which could render the redundancy useless. Shouldn't the drives be able to scan for UREs? Rebuild times aren't an issue for me, as long as it's under a month it should be fine.
2. I've also thought about going with just buying another 16TB drive and setting up some sort of backup to it from my main 16TB drives. However if I choose to do this I have 2 questions.
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How can I ensure that in case the main drive gets some corrupted sectors that it doesn't back this newly corrupted data up to my backup drive?
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I'm on Windows at the moment, so which backup tools would you recommend if I go with this solution?
Which option should I pick? And if none of the 2 options above seem applicable, what would you recommend?