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Absolutely! Over the last ~10 years, with perhaps an average of 6-8 disks at any one time and relatively low intensity use, I've probably had 4 hard drives where the files had checksum errors, before complete failure.

But you don't need anything fancy; 2TB is small enough though that you can just buy another HDD and back it up manually.



Except that if you don't notice the corruption, you'll just back up the bad data.




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