Raid 1 Set-up Help Please

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silentcolours

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I've been searching for a while but keep getting confused between responses and similar situations that are 2/3years out of date. So if someone would be kind enough to shed some light on this...

My setup is in my sig, but inaddition to this i have a 500gb hitachi drive with all data. I would like to put another drive in which acts as an exact copy of this, following a series of scares from HDDs failings around my household. I dont want to loose my data, and have a spare drive.

I figured RAID-1 was the choice, but am unsure if i can set this up without reinstalling windows/or copy data etc. Can i just plug the new blank hdd in and have it copy all the data from the hitachi to it, and continually update the copy as i make any changes...

Sorry for such a convoluted post, i hope it makes some sense. Thanks in advance for your replies. :)
 
My external drive has failed on me, but it did act as a copy and kept away from my pc. However, now im left with just the drive in my pc. It will be replaced under warranty. But in the mean time i would like to have a copy in the pc just in case the drive fails. Like i said, there is no investment here for me as i already have the spare drive. I suppose i could sell it and invest in some subscription online storage. Eg. Live Drive. But I might as well stick it in and get the online storage when i can afford it properly.
 
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