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scottr530

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  1. I have looked and tried to find a good answer but have come up short. before money is spent i want to cover all bases.. My bosses wife is a data hoarder, in the sense shes a professional photographer and keeps all files in raw format in the event she needs to edit anything. i recently found out her storage woes. she has one 14TB nas thats been unreliable but at the same time totally full. and she has a over 10 external usb drives between 1 and 5 TB that are also full. i myself shuck WD drives for my own personal server and know thats a good route for large drives, but these people are completely clueless when it comes to technical stuff. so i am trying to help.. Shes paranoid about drive failures after an external failed. i was thinking about setting up her computer to run a RAID 1 setup with 4 12tb drives to give them a total of 24TB but with a redundancy backup. i keep hearing from people that this is a bad idea, but no where does it say why its a bad idea. her current computer is a dell XPS8900. from what i understand it has a basic software intel raid capabilities in it, but have not yet confirmed it. i am trying to think of the best way to go forward with this. While keeping it as basic user friendly as possible. I think going internal might be the best bet. but at the same time multiple bay external enclosures might be another idea. only thing i cant find any with reliable reviews. every external enclosure has negatives regarding data loss. What would yall recommend?
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