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Probably. I honestly never used a RAID array. I have a 1TB SSD boot drive for speed, and two 4TB HDDs because I don't trust SSDs, LOL. Over the years I buy external HDDs to back things up, I have a 4TB External for my main computer data, documents, photos etc... a 4TB external for my DAZ3D stuff and a 1TB external for games I have purchased (mainly from GOG) and my own games I made.Am I just a sadist because I prefer having at least 3 drives in a Raid 5 array?
I TRY to make backups once a month after doing a couple scans to make sure there are no corrupt files. If all is running well, and drivers are updated etc, I will make a restore point which can help you recover lost files. And for extra security I have an external USB boot stick in case Windows somehow fails to boot. I hate losing stuff I worked on! I lost one HDD in my life, and it had a lot of programming I had done on a game. I even have backups of some of my older, smaller HDDs on my backup drive. I'm a packrat. Got some stuff from the '90s on there I recovered from old CD and DVD backups I had.