It might be worth having a set of n humble USB drives, one of which is in a safety deposit box ( cycle through them ) with a weekly copy of everything on the RA

It might be worth having a set of n humble USB drives, one of which is in a safety deposit box ( cycle through them ) with a weekly copy of everything on the RAID. I set n at 2, and substitute a cheap "fire safe" for the safety deposit box ( I know, I know... ) . I don't know that I will build another RAID when this one goes. I have yet to pull anything off it. But my primary copy of things is all still on my main machine, un-RAIDed. For legacy software reasons I won't bore you with, that's still a Win7 box.