[scarface_74]

That’s fair.

But soldered versus non-soldered is a secondary issue to you not having up to date backups somewhere that are easily accessible.

But even then there are backup solutions for Linux that backup to S3 and S3 Glacier is cheap. I have 3TB and my AWS bill is $4 a month.

And “RAID is not backup”

[em-bee]

i do have a cloud backup. as i said the cost of that itself is not the issue. the cost of accessing it is. the raid protects against the "dead SSD" failure mode.