Back up concerns

I am a photographer and have too many images of course. And they have been scattered on harddrives and dvds here and there (in multiples of course for back up purposes) but I want to consolidate everything.
And I was leaning really towards to a mirrored drive set up, but have read people having the power supply or connection or fan become an issue and boom, can't access any of it. (yes I know they can be yanked and reinstalled elsewhere as long as the drive isn't fried) But something I didn't think about is if you delete from on drive, it does it from the second and so a misstep on deleting can be a problem. (I am not overly concerned about this as I tend not to delete for safeties sake) but its something to add into the mix.
But I could get two external stand along drives and just copy what is needed to one and then copy to the second drive with carbon copy cloner or such to make a second copy. Its more work but it seems to be a little safer from screw ups on the drives, connections and humans. And can be stored separately if need be.
And of course there is NAS options. The real downside here to be is cost. I wouldn't need to worry networking it over the internet, but the idea of using my airport base station to wirelessly access and work with my files is very appealing, but I also want a drive that I can attach to the MacBook directly and be somewhat portable. It seems most NAS options are only designed for the network and not direct connections and tend to be on the larger than what is comfortable for traveling with.
And any drive I have looked at when I do a search about shows a lot of people unhappy with it, lol, and sadly people are more likely to post negatives and I understand that but its a shame because it has kept me from pulling the trigger.
Money is tight and I want something to be able to expand overtime.
I was looking at the Hitachi SimpleTech Duo Pro with 2 TB, which I would mirror and have 1 T to actively work with.
But there are so many options even with cases and adding ones own drive.
I am not 100% sold that the NAS is worth the extra cost either.
And when I get the drive I will be moving gigs and gigs of info over and I was told not just to drag and drop it because its more likely to have errors and to copy things over. Is this true?
So what do other people who have been through this have to say is a good option for dilemma? I am sure there are quite a few that have been down this road and any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thankis.

+So is there a concern about copying versus drag and dropping? Is one more likely than the other to cause errors?+
In real terms there's no difference between dragging and dropping a file/folder and doing a clone but I lean towards regular cloning rather than trying to keep track of what needs to be backed up. I've no idea if it makes a difference to the drive structure and if heavy fragmentation has a real effect on reliability (but gut feel would be that it might)
+older airport base station with g speeds, can one attach any harddrive to it and use it or does it need to be a NAS drive?+
As far as I know (don't use NAS myself) you can attach the drive to the base station and share it (but somebody else here might have better knowledge/suggestions on that)

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