Until I see 3 copies on 3 drives or places or more, we have not achieved "backup."
I also see folk overspend on RAID in hopes of more reliability but so far, a simple drive, and 2 more have been cheaper and achieve the state of backup most seek. That way we can drop one onto the pavement from the 42nd floor and still have our files.
Bob
I'm finally going to set up my OWC Elite as a RAID 10 (4 x 2TB drives) and connect it to my iMac 800 Firewire port.
Even though it would be key, I can't afford to get a UPS brick or an external Firewire drive for backup at the moment. But working on it.
Before I purchased the RAID, I was accessing/saving files to my iMac's second 2TB internal drive (by boot drive is SSD)
In the meantime and temporarily; since this is my first RAID, should I...
A. Read and write files to the RAID and use the internal drive as back up using what Apple Time Machine or Carbon Copy?
B. Or should it be the other way around?

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