To RAID or not to RAID, that is the question.

[SexyGreyFox]

At the weekend I had a catastrophic HD failure and if I'd been younger I'd be crying but life goes on. I've tried a multitude of software and taken the drive to somebody who does data recovery for a living and he couldn't do anything.

Anyway, I don't want this to happen again so do I buy a couple of 3TB hard drives and RAID 1 them or shall I buy one drive and buy an external drive and do regular backups?

What would be your choice and why?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

ALRIGHT, YOU'VE BLOODY CONVINCED ME

Thanks lads.
A trip to OCUK on Saturday.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Forgot to update -

1 x Samsung 250gb SSD
2 x 3TB Toshiba HDD
1 x Icy Box Docking & Clone Station - very impressive.

I also had a stroke of luck.
When I was removing my faulty drive I noticed a 2TB drive still in there that I replaced the 3TB for because it started to play up.
I've basically saved most of my important data.