Backup strategy question - will RAID 1 benefit me?

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Should I backup my data using RAID 1 to mirror my current data drive, or “manually” mirror the data i.e. use Robocopy? Furthermore, if I remove a drive in a RAID 1 pair and put it in another PC, can the data still be accessed as if it were never in a RAID array initially?

Bit of background:
I have a 256 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. I use the SSD as an OS drive, and the HDD as my documents/media drive. I regularly back up all the important stuff (steam games :p) from my SSD to the HDD using Robocopy, and my documents on the HDD are backed up on Dropbox. Therefore the only things that aren’t backed up are videos, music and photos, and it’s probably time I did.

TL;DR

RAID 1 or manual copying of data as a backup solution?
 
It depends on whether you want to protect yourself from hardware failure only, or from accidental deletion/overwriting of files etc.

RAID1 will protect you from hardware failure alone, a proper backup routine will protect you from hardware failure, accidental deletion, overwriting of documents, filesystem corruption on your main drive to name but a few more things.
 
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