My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.
You're still trusting one drive with your data, and those ssds can die without warning. You're still in the same risky situation with your data
True, it's definitely in the plans to get a NAS with a RAID setup and it may be expedited to nearer in the future than I thought lol
Reject raid, ZFS supremacy
ZFS is essentially a raid implementation. The principle is the same. From what I hear it's probably the most popular implementation right now, and for good reason
It's a fair bit more than that, but yes in a sense it is RAID if you are using it across more than one drive (as you should). You can use ZFS on a single drive though, so it's a middle ground situation.
The main thing is to avoid hardware RAID controllers unless you have a really good reason, and that's generally what most people refer to as RAID. Generally folks are moving to JBOD setups with filesystems like ZFS now though
Ah well, I was not aware that people usually mean hardware when they say raid. Thanks for clearing that up.