I need to figure out a better external hard drive storage and backup strategy and looking for help. Mac user with currently files spread through 4 HDDs 1 to 4 TB external drives with rare attempts at random manual backups on them.
What external hard drive enclosures and HDDs do you all recommend? This will be for archiving stuff mostly. I have a 1TB HDD that I run on TimeMachine to backup my laptop. I don't really have the need for RAID or a NAS. So to follow with the 3-2-1 strategy I'm thinking I should have 2 separate external enclosures with large capacity HDDs inside with one backing up to the other. Or should I consolidate and buy a 2 or 4 bay enclosure and have that housing both my HDD and backup HDD and random smaller sized 3.5" drives? Then backup the backup HDD to Backblaze also. What good quality enclosure(s) do you recommend? Drobo? Mediasonic? OWC? other?
Should I buy large used enterprise HDDs from GoHarddrive? Which brand/models? What software should I use to automate the backup? Carbon Copy Cloner?