This is so weird. The first response was somewhat acceptable if in a joking manner but then he quintuple downed.

Ok, I think I get all that. It seems I was just over thinking things. Thanks.

I plan on using it mostly for media (plex). RAID5 sounded good to me but the more I read I started getting scared. The complete lack of redundancy with RAID0 seems bad if I understand correctly I’ll lose everything if one drove fails.

I was riding the google gsuite unlimited storage gravy train which is now over. I have a good 30 to 40 TB to download. With that much data backing up on the cloud does not seem practical. I’d back up plex database and other configuration files and such.