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just remember that raid is not a backup
I meant to get back to ask you what you meant by this.
My (novice-level) understanding was R5 would give you redundancy and a way to restore one of your drives if it went down unrecoverably.
Is that just wrong, or it doesn’t count as a backup?
it works thst way if a drive fails, yes, but not if your computer crashes in the wrong way or you accidentally delete a file.
A backup has protection against these.