Settin up OS drive - single or raid? What do the Pros do?

jpod · 24 Nov 2019 at 13:09

Planning a new PC for my partner to use. Word docs work related. She can't lose her files but is hopeless at backing up. What do I do these days?

Do I use two SSD's (240GB would suffice) and raid? If one falls over I have a second copy?

Or do I use a single SSD drive and use drop box/google/outlook or similar to back up her desktop?

Thanks pod

Journey · 24 Nov 2019 at 13:11

If the computer exploded and set both drives on fire, when you have a RAID array, would she still have a backup?

Scania · 24 Nov 2019 at 13:12

jpod said:
Planning a new PC for my partner to use. Word docs work related. She can't lose her files but is hopeless at backing up. What do I do these days?

Do I use two SSD's (240GB would suffice) and raid? If one falls over I have a second copy?

Or do I use a single SSD drive and use drop box/google/outlook or similar to back up her desktop?

Thanks pod

Cloud based backup for work documents etc I’d have thought these days.

By all means though local backup as well, even if she forgets to do it the cloud you’d have set to automatic backup anyway.

jpod · 24 Nov 2019 at 13:19

Scania said:
Cloud based backup for work documents etc..........

Thanks bud. I guess those free ones above would back up a folder of MS word docs effortlessly.

iamdjdz · 24 Nov 2019 at 13:21

I like OneDrive as it looks like a normal windows folder and you can save straight to it from office.

Puzzled · 24 Nov 2019 at 14:48

Does onedrive do file history backups? Say you mess something up and save a file by accident which is then automatically synced to the cloud, can you revert to a previous file revision?

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Nov 2019 at 15:14

Single disk with cloud storage.

Scania · 24 Nov 2019 at 15:36

jpod said:
Thanks bud. I guess those free ones above would back up a folder of MS word docs effortlessly.

Indeed, it should assuming the documents of course aren't particularly massive.

iamdjdz · 24 Nov 2019 at 15:38

Puzzled said:
Does onedrive do file history backups? Say you mess something up and save a file by accident which is then automatically synced to the cloud, can you revert to a previous file revision?

Yes, I've never used it but apparently you can, I'm not sure how intertwined it is with Windows file history backup though.

Street · 24 Nov 2019 at 15:41

Puzzled said:
Does onedrive do file history backups? Say you mess something up and save a file by accident which is then automatically synced to the cloud, can you revert to a previous file revision?

Yep, OneDrive does version history. The amount of people I recommend Office 365 to that baulk at the price but in my opinion it's worth it for the backup features alone.

jpod · 24 Nov 2019 at 16:00

Street said:
Yep, OneDrive does version history. The amount of people I recommend Office 365 to that baulk at the price but in my opinion it's worth it for the backup features alone.

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I have that for work too.

Thanks a million fellas.

Maundie · 24 Nov 2019 at 16:53

Street said:
Yep, OneDrive does version history. The amount of people I recommend Office 365 to that baulk at the price but in my opinion it's worth it for the backup features alone.

Same, missus said you pay £6 a month!! but when I explained I get Office on all 3 devices and I can access the OneDrive from anywhere she actually agreed its great (especially because I can access all the recipes in the kitchen on my iPad, saves on dozens of cookery books).

Josh · 24 Nov 2019 at 16:54

OneDrive known folder migration sounds perfect.

[FnG]magnolia · 24 Nov 2019 at 19:54

known folder migration is the name of my new band.

Pawnless Endgame · 24 Nov 2019 at 20:45

I'm not familiar with media servers, but could that be an option too? So it's a down-sized computer with an OS and a large disk that you could remote into and schedule incremental back-ups to happen every day?

Edit: this thread might be better in one of the computer sub-sections.