Best drive arrangement

speedyj · 7 Sep 2010 at 00:07

Building a new i7 rig on the Asus E6X58D-E and planning to have 64GB Crucial C300 SSD as OS drive with 2 x 1TB F3's in software RAID 0 for software/storage etc and 2 x 1TB drives in external esata enclosure in RAID 1 as backup.

Is this the best use of the drives?

95thrifles · 7 Sep 2010 at 00:09

If you dont already own the drives, why not just use 4 1Tb internals in RAID10, course if you already have the 2 externals then nvm

speedyj · 7 Sep 2010 at 00:18

I have all the drives and the external box is enroute. I decided on the external box as it has its own power so in my mind is slightly more detached from the main rig.

What would be the best approach to backing up, is there any software you would recommend other than what Win7 can do.

Subliminal Aura · 7 Sep 2010 at 00:31

acronis drive image for backup (does incremental and differential) - Anyone have any reservations with regards to it ?

Why RAID1 on the external backup ? You now have 3 copies of your data :/

el Kuarlos · 7 Sep 2010 at 10:35

mispost.

mattmos · 7 Sep 2010 at 11:17

Doesn't your raid 0 drive amount to 2Tb and the raid 1 backup only 1Tb? Might run out of space on the backups, that's all I can think of, otherwise sounds like a reliable system.

413x · 7 Sep 2010 at 12:28

acronis has saved me days of work

I managed to image my 1 disk os and put I onto a raid setup raid 0 so I didn't have to install everything. Twice