The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/retrorays on 2024-07-01 02:53:24.

I have a two Western Digital 10TB USB drives, and two mobile (thin form factor) Western Digital 2TB drives.

I have ~2TB of data that is backed up on the two mobile 2TB drives as it was convenient. The images are identical. I use WDs password system to protect the drives. I’m not using the two large 10TB USB drives for anything useful.

I used to have cloud backup as well but decided that wasn’t worth the cost/hassle. I may go back to cloud in the future.

I’d like to clean this up to make it more secure, and provide the best possible reliabillity. I’d like to move my backup solution to the large 10TB USB drives and use the mobile drives for somethign else.

I was thinking to do the following:

  1. Move the 2TB+ of data to each 10TB USB drive. Mirror the same data on each drive.

  2. Use bitlocker to secure the data. One concern is if the drive has a small corruption could this break the entire bitlocker image? In that case should I have separate bitlocker regions on the USB drive?

Is there a better way to do this? Are there any other steps I should take?