The grass looks like my doormat:

I don’t tgink you can create a RaidZ1 with just two drives.

But the low-cost pool would probably not have the capacity to hold my data (or not be low-cost).

Sadly I don’t have 11 Tb worth of smaller empty drives around (and not even eniugh sata-Ports, so I’d also have to buy an expansion-card).

Yeah, I don’t like the broken pool idea either, that’s why I was hoping there was a better method.

Sounds interesting, but while I have room for one more drive, I don’t want to spend money for one more drive xD (As mentioned, I have >= 12Tb drives, so another one I don’t really need would hurt the wallet quite a bit.)

But send to where?

I back up my personal data for which I have the space. I do not back up my media, as I can’t justify the costs for another drive that size and would be fine with losing in the offchance I loose two drives in my array (or my entire server fucking up).