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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/thebigrace on 2024-01-23 23:55:26+00:00.
I'm a photographer/videographer with half a dozen > 10tb external hard drives who finally got fed up with trying to organize them.
Today I purchased a Thunderbay 4 Bay enclosure and 4x20tb Western Digital Red Pro drives, now I'm trying to figure out the simplest, safest way to keep my data safe.
I have about 30tb of data, that increases 3-5tb a year. It's all backed up in 2 locations somewhere in this pile of hard drives, as well as to the cloud via backblaze.
When I get my Thunderbay set up I'd like to decommission/repurpose the external drives I have and use two drives in the Thunderbay for my primary archive and the two other drives as a backup.
I know that, even though RAID 1 is a mirror, that RAID is not a backup. My question is, using something like Carbon Copy Cloner, can I create two separate 40tb volumes and back one up to the other without risking one drive failure killing the entire thing?
Basically treating it like I've got two separate enclosure?
If not, what would my best option be for this?