Thanks, I have my important files manually backed up every now and then on two different drives in my desktop, this idea is part of moving away from stressing so much and I’m probably going to abandon the raid idea for the near future and instead do scheduled backups (and maybe checkups?). I’ll keep in mind all that stuff about temps too when I do get an oportunity to make a suitable raid array build (without individual usb controllers between the drives and the server).

I have checked my data recently, haven’t found any issues. I appreciate all the info and help!

Didn’t know about this, it is at 8 GB of ddr3, couldn’t find a bigger stick and it doesn’t have more than one slot. I’m updating the post to address other responses. Thanks