Hi.
I would not use archive drives for scrach.
Once your computer stall or something like that
you might loos all your stuff 😉
Simply make copys and put them away.
Ideally i’d make 2 disks.
First back up to one and then to second one the same stuff.
It gives you more redundancy.
I use my self 4 drives striped in raid 10
so if used online and one disk fails the others work
and no stop in work.
And later in the evnening i make external HDD backup.
But ok it is a bit different aproach.
It is still good idea to self storage your SATA drives.
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Margus
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