Backing up HDD

matt_griff · 5 May 2011 at 17:46

Hi, ok so I have now learnt my lesson that I should backup my HDD after losing nearly 1tb of data recently because my Samsung f3 broke.

I'm looking to have 2tb Samsung f3's in raid with another 2 backing the data up.
How do I do this?

Thanks

sk82jack · 5 May 2011 at 18:02

What motherboard have you got?

Research how to set up a RAID1 array with your specific motherboard.

paradigm · 5 May 2011 at 18:05

By saying "2tb Samsung F3's in raid" with "2 backing the data up", do you want to acheive a 4TB volume (RAID0) or a redundant 2TB volume, with capacity for a single drive to fail (RAID1)?

I'd be looking to back up to external media, and getting the best of both RAID worlds by running 3 (or more) 1TB hdds in RAID5 (where you lose the capacity of a single drive, but gain the performance of being able to write across all 3+).

Buchanan0204 · 5 May 2011 at 18:11

What actually happened to the drive? Did it just stop working all together? Was it gradual decline etc?

Did you ever recover the data?

matt_griff · 5 May 2011 at 18:22

I lost everything.

Switched it on and had this message

"reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key"

After a few restarts it started hanging on the Windows splash screen and then after a while it would show a BSOD bad_system_config_info stop: 0x00000074

Unable to dump physical memory with status 0xc000009c

After another restart it showed a different BSOD unmountable_boot_volume stop: 0x000000ED

Tried everything but no joy.
Tested with Samsung utility and it failed on random access read.

Formatted the drive and reinstalled Windows worked fine until I did a restart and then it happened again.
The drive wont even appear on the computer now even though i can hear it working.

matt_griff · 5 May 2011 at 19:41

paradigm said:
By saying "2tb Samsung F3's in raid" with "2 backing the data up", do you want to acheive a 4TB volume (RAID0) or a redundant 2TB volume, with capacity for a single drive to fail (RAID1)?

I'd be looking to back up to external media, and getting the best of both RAID worlds by running 3 (or more) 1TB hdds in RAID5 (where you lose the capacity of a single drive, but gain the performance of being able to write across all 3+).

If I did put 4 drives in raid0 and then bought a external hdd to backup the data would I have to back it up manually.

I would rather have my data backed up all the time automatically.

paradigm · 5 May 2011 at 19:44

You can use windows backup to automatically backup to external disks.

But I'd definately run RAID5 rather than RAID0, at least you can then lose a disk and retain all functionality, with automatic rebuild once you add a healthy drive.