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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/spur0701 on 2025-06-26 23:21:21.

About 10 years ago I bought a NAS, a Western Digital Sential DX4000, it had 4 3 TB drives and I hung it off the home network.  The family used it as a backup location for pretty much anything.  It finally failed last year, I haven't tried to recover anything from it yet but the kids are gone off to college and I think I've got all the data that was on it on other drives so I don't think it's worth trying to recover anything from it, which is fortunate cause it looks like it would be a pain since one of the drives is dead and the enclosure is dead.  

In the spring I bought 2 Seagate EXOS recerted 20TB drives and dropped them in my main desktop, its a Dell XPS 8930, it's a little older but it had 64 GB of memory and runs an i9.  

My plan was to RAID 1 them, since that would be the simplest, robust, and easy to recover if one dies.  I know I can do that with software but was looking for a recommendation for  PCIe card that wasn't too too expensive?  ....or is there another solution that I'm missing?

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