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RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
It depends on what's on the drive. I have a large library of games stored on striped spinning rust. What it does is let me play very old games without downloading them every time. When one fails which isn't very often, I just buy a new one, rebuild the array and download again. Usually I'm downloading the library cause I did something stupid and broke it.
Any data I value at all is at least in a redundant array and anything that I don't want to ever lose is in a proper 3-2-1 solution. Keeps the costs down, cause I'd be sad if I lost my jellyfin stuff but screwed if I lost my pictures or tax stuff.