Personally I’m more on the paranoid side, so I went with raid 6 and a hot spare. So in case of failure I can rebuild one disk immediately and not having to buy one first. But so far I’ve never had a disk failure.

In addition I was thinking of having the 8TB HDD as a standalone to backup the documents and maybe the photos and the docker setups.

That is a very good idea. I also can’t quite afford to backup my main storage of movies/shows, but at least all the important personal documents (and my music) is properly backed up.

Well, I strongly disagree right back.

Especially smaller instances regularly have reliability or federation issues, so it’s vital for me to be able to hop to an alt account and still get the same all feed.

Ok, but then this should be a seperate feed from “all”.

Has anyone else noticed how painfully similar the “All” feed looks across different Lemmy instances?

Yes. That’s how it should look.