It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/I_Thranduil on 2025-04-24 14:43:01.

Hi folks! I just ordered the 2 bay ugreen NAS and settled on a 20tb Toshiba. I plan on creating some content down the line, but until then I won't need any redundancy as I'll be storing disposable data.

Is there a way to create a Raid 1 setup with just 1 member, and add the second member when I decide to do something more serious? Or are there more ways to do it? I may change the default OS if it's necessary.

Storage is getting cheaper by the day and in 1 year it could be 1/3 less than the price today. My only experience is with old hardware Raid where both disks had to be erased on Raid initialization, and I need some 2025 advice.

Thanks!