Soldato
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In need of new physical backup due to wanting more speed and size limitations of old drives. Have currently 600gb to save, so am looking at either 1tb or 2tb, x2 drives potentially as that's what I normally do, (and do away with the current collection of small backup drives). But will likely not need more than 1tb for a little while yet.
Problem is i'm saving files from a camcorder frequently and with my computer acting funny (about to buy new PSU anyway, among other issues), i'm wanting a bit of speed to backup frequently. And i frequently change file names and locations, so just copy/paste across. And one of my very old (8yrs+) HDDs has failed also.
Bit of a dilemma.
Would like a Gen 2 USB with 2x 7200rpm HDDs in RAID 1. Or alternative setup in RAID 1.
--But unsure with USB Gen 1 vs 2 makes any difference with a HDD, is there a bottleneck there?
--If a faster RPM makes any difference when taking in cost.
--But ultimately i am halving backup time due to RAID.
--This still seems kind of expensive?
Or just get a basic 1tb portable SSD for the time being and continue using old slow backup drives also, but less frequently.
Thanks for any input/thoughts.
In need of new physical backup due to wanting more speed and size limitations of old drives. Have currently 600gb to save, so am looking at either 1tb or 2tb, x2 drives potentially as that's what I normally do, (and do away with the current collection of small backup drives). But will likely not need more than 1tb for a little while yet.
Problem is i'm saving files from a camcorder frequently and with my computer acting funny (about to buy new PSU anyway, among other issues), i'm wanting a bit of speed to backup frequently. And i frequently change file names and locations, so just copy/paste across. And one of my very old (8yrs+) HDDs has failed also.
Bit of a dilemma.
Would like a Gen 2 USB with 2x 7200rpm HDDs in RAID 1. Or alternative setup in RAID 1.
--But unsure with USB Gen 1 vs 2 makes any difference with a HDD, is there a bottleneck there?
--If a faster RPM makes any difference when taking in cost.
--But ultimately i am halving backup time due to RAID.
--This still seems kind of expensive?
Or just get a basic 1tb portable SSD for the time being and continue using old slow backup drives also, but less frequently.
Thanks for any input/thoughts.