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>>40998393
if you want external storage, try samsung external solid state drives. they're inexpensive and if you have USB-C they're very fast.

i don't recommend RAID0 at all anymore. newer drives like SSD/NVME are fast enough to not warrant its usage and even in application with them the benefit is negligible. RAID0 only makes sense on inexpensive rotational disk storage in massive quantities such as massive enterprise installations. RAID1 on two personal home storage disks is fine enough for full recovery in the event one disk fails, but putting expensive disks in that array will always feel like a waste. RAID5/10 in a home setting are for more hardcore huge volumes where you cannot rely on the dependency of just one piece of hardware for too long, but that is only if you are planning to store a lot of data on a very large volume you want to keep mirrored perpetually, 16-24TB+, and always have the cash on hand to find a replacement drive in the event that one of them fails. spreading the redundancy to too many disks always feels like a risk because instead of relying on the dependency of 1 large capacity drive you're spreading it to 4+ which by probability means there is 4 times the chance of failure.

mobo RAID seriously sucks but i personally haven't used anything outside of that. i used to use RAID1 until the first time i had a drive fail and i ditched it for SSDs. since my data collection is small enough to apply to cheap cloud storage backup solutions i chose that. this is ideal for small storage solutions because you also have off-site backup (true backup; unlike RAID) in case of theft/natural disaster/unnatural catastrophe without a large upfront investment.

tldr if you're under 1TB usage: use cloud not RAID

btw miku