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by einsteinx2 35 days ago
I have 4TB in mine (wish I’d gone for 8TB though now that it’s almost filled), and no I don’t worry about it at all because I have backups. Regardless of your drive layout (RAID isn’t a backup), you’re data can be gone at any moment if you don’t have good backups (lost/stolen laptop, software issue, etc). You mention already having backups so I really don’t understand this concern about having a single large drive… If it breaks, you restore from your backups. Yeah it’s annoying but it’s annoying to lose a 1 or 2 TB drive as well and the resolution is exactly the same anyway: restore from your backups and move on with life.