Soldato
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I've been running two 1TB Sammy F1's in raid 1 for a few years. Recenly with Win7 I've had a few issues. When I did a reinstall of Windows 7, the files and folders on the mirror lost all the security settings. I was able to access the drive but all the folders were inaccessible. After fixing that I then found the recycle bin kept moaning about being corrupt. This warning eventually disappeared but when I did a windows ScanDisk, the scandisk tool hung at the end of the process. I then did a reboot and found I couldn't access the mirror at all. Right-clicking the mirror in Explorer and selecting 'Properties' resulted in a disk access violation. However, I managed to get into the Properties for the drive via the Disk Manager (in Admin tools) and found I had to again setup all the security stuff again for the drive. I had a major panic at first as I thought my data had been lost due to drive corruption but luckily it was down to security again. However, the recycle bin doesn't work at all now, anything deleted is permanently deleted even though the mirrored drive does have the recycle bin enabled.
So the problems have made me think that while a mirrored raid has it's upsides, it's still all too easy to lose everything. It's great if one drive suddenly dies, but any data corruption (brought about by software or even user error) is still a problem. So I'm wondering if it's better to ditch the raid and instead just use a simple automated backup process instead. I think this would also save power as only one drive would be used and the other drive only ever gets booted up when the backups occur.
Are there any other non-obvious con's either way? And what software can be used for this? Think I have an old copy of acronis somewhere but think i'll need to update it for Windows 7, this is able to clone or backup directories on an daily schedule right?
So the problems have made me think that while a mirrored raid has it's upsides, it's still all too easy to lose everything. It's great if one drive suddenly dies, but any data corruption (brought about by software or even user error) is still a problem. So I'm wondering if it's better to ditch the raid and instead just use a simple automated backup process instead. I think this would also save power as only one drive would be used and the other drive only ever gets booted up when the backups occur.
Are there any other non-obvious con's either way? And what software can be used for this? Think I have an old copy of acronis somewhere but think i'll need to update it for Windows 7, this is able to clone or backup directories on an daily schedule right?
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