RAID 1 or no point?

[qbazdz]

Hi,

I've never been using RAID for my stuff, but since the HDDs are pretty cheap these days it would take quite a bit of my time spend on backups if I implemented RAID 1 for my stuff.

At the moment I have one F3 1TB and 128GB M4 SSD. The F3 is no more than 60% full and most of the stuff could be deleted anyway.

Would Raid 1 still give me better read/writes?

I know with that one, only if BOTH hdds would fail I would be pretty **** but maybe this isn't for me?

I mainly need my software and pictures backed up but if I can protect all my data then great!

What would you suggest?
Thanks!

 

[Surveyor]

RAID 1 is a mirrored array where the same data is on both disks.

It offers no improvement to read and write speeds over a single disk but if one disk fails all the data is still present.

RAID 0 is where the data is split across 2 or more drives.

This gives increased read and write performance but if one drive fails all the data is lost.


RAID 1 is a redundancy solution not a back up solution. If your PC was stolen, destroyed in a fire etc. then your data is still gone.

A proper back up would have your data on an external disk stored away from the PC. Ideally in another building altogether.