A person having different needs than yours isn't madness. Many of us here work from home at times, either occasionally or regularly, and we have our own projec

A person having different needs than yours isn't madness. Many of us here work from home at times, either occasionally or regularly, and we have our own projects in addition to our day job. We each make our own decisions as to what configuration gives us the most acceptable level as performance given the level of risk we're willing to accept. If a couple of drives in a RAID1 configuration works for you, great! It doesn't fit my needs since my media PC has about 20TB of usable space (~15TB in use) and I don't want to have to hunt through backups of any form when I want to watch or listen to something. I also have a NAS for my more important files. It's backed up to a cloud provider as well, but the amount of time it would take to download everything after a failure would be very stressful for me, so I spent a bit of money up front for my setup. It's not 100% protection, but so far I've had two drives start to fail, but I was notified in plenty of time to get new drives in and let the array rebuild. I'm happy with my setup. Well, happy based on the amount of money I was willing to put into it, obviously. Either way, my setup isn't madness. It's simply different than what you do.