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My fileserver is running WD Green drives in raid-0, it's about having a large partition with low power and quiet drives, the speed benefits of it are secondary but handy.

You'd only want raid 1 if you don't want to lose the data and don't back it up.

with the price of decent size drives now, and the problems associated with raid 0 that still makes little sense. He has 2 1tb drives and could easily buy a 2tb for $150. there really is zero reason to need the paltry speed benefit that you get from r0 on a green drive. They are fast enough for 1080p video streaming, and file transfer isn't that slow anyway - unless you are transferring over a slow network. I have 4 2tb drives in a nas and have no issue with speed.

And considering the OP is now looking at a backup solution it makes sense to either raid 1 the 1tb or get a 2tb drive (depending on how much stuff the OP actually has)

OP, you may find that the data you have isn't all important for backup. So figure out what you definitely want to keep and then base a backup solution around that. If you only have say 500gb worth of data that you really want to keep, I would still suggest using the 2 1tb drives in raid 1. But, given that you will lose the data, perhap just buying a 2tb green drive and external enclosure is the easiest solution.

You completely missed the point about LOW POWER and QUIET. The 2TB green drives are very nice drives and cheap. I said the speed benefits were secondary, that means it's not the reason for going green so you missed that point as well. There are a plethora of raid profiles for a reason - you select the one that best suits your needs.