Howdy,
Firstly, I am thinking the only way to do what I am about ti ask is RAID, but tbh I don't fully understand the concept of RAID so I may be wrong... and if I am right then please tell me (and a little noob explanation of RAID would be cool
).
Anyway, I have a IBM xSeries server I run in another room in the house, and this runs Windows Server 2003 and all my Websites (I'm a web developer!).
Well currently I only have the one HDD in there (its a 150gb Maxtor SATA-II I think), but I have a Samsung Spinpoint 200gb SATA-II hdd knocking arounbd that I want to put into the server instead of the maxtor cos I have heard far too many horror stories about Maxtors.
Well my intention is to put the Samsung in as the master/primary HDD and create the usual partitions (just as I have on the maxtor that is in there) of:
C: Windows ONLY
D: Programs (MySQL/Apache/SQL Server/CFMX/PHP/Oracle etc etc)
E: Websites
Is it possible to put the Maxtor in as a second HDD and whatever I have on my E: drive will get copied to the Maxtor as a backup if you like. So whenever I save a file on the E: drive a copy is made on the Maxtor at the same time?
Is this kinda how RAID works? I'm not bothered about the C: drive being copied... but I wouldn't mind the D: drive being copied too (for the DBs)?
How would I go about doing this? If it is RAID, do both HDDs need to be identical to do this?
I'm just wondering if there is a third party tool out there that will do this, i.e. I tell it what drives I want to "mirror" on the secondary HDD and it does it thing?
Any help will be appreciated!
EDIT: I do know that RAID increases performance slightly (right??), I am not interested in this, the only reason I want this is to get a backup of my files in case the worst happens!
ta
Steve M
Firstly, I am thinking the only way to do what I am about ti ask is RAID, but tbh I don't fully understand the concept of RAID so I may be wrong... and if I am right then please tell me (and a little noob explanation of RAID would be cool
).Anyway, I have a IBM xSeries server I run in another room in the house, and this runs Windows Server 2003 and all my Websites (I'm a web developer!).
Well currently I only have the one HDD in there (its a 150gb Maxtor SATA-II I think), but I have a Samsung Spinpoint 200gb SATA-II hdd knocking arounbd that I want to put into the server instead of the maxtor cos I have heard far too many horror stories about Maxtors.
Well my intention is to put the Samsung in as the master/primary HDD and create the usual partitions (just as I have on the maxtor that is in there) of:
C: Windows ONLY
D: Programs (MySQL/Apache/SQL Server/CFMX/PHP/Oracle etc etc)
E: Websites
Is it possible to put the Maxtor in as a second HDD and whatever I have on my E: drive will get copied to the Maxtor as a backup if you like. So whenever I save a file on the E: drive a copy is made on the Maxtor at the same time?
Is this kinda how RAID works? I'm not bothered about the C: drive being copied... but I wouldn't mind the D: drive being copied too (for the DBs)?
How would I go about doing this? If it is RAID, do both HDDs need to be identical to do this?
I'm just wondering if there is a third party tool out there that will do this, i.e. I tell it what drives I want to "mirror" on the secondary HDD and it does it thing?
Any help will be appreciated!
EDIT: I do know that RAID increases performance slightly (right??), I am not interested in this, the only reason I want this is to get a backup of my files in case the worst happens!
ta
Steve M