I'm planning to set up my two 160gb drives in a mirror RAID1 Array.
This means whatever I load will automatically be saved to both drives so if one drive fails everything is safe on the other drive (correct me if I'm wrong).
Like most of us I like to do a fresh install of the OS occasionally to keep things sweet. With the RAID set up can I disable the RAID, reformat and reinstall OS etc on one drive then access the other drive to copy all my data files back into the relevant folders then reformat that drive and set the RAID up again? Is it easy to do?
Also if I get a virus I assume it will get onto both drives and screw them both up so is it actually safer to run everything on one drive with no RAID and regularly ghost to the second drive?
This means whatever I load will automatically be saved to both drives so if one drive fails everything is safe on the other drive (correct me if I'm wrong).
Like most of us I like to do a fresh install of the OS occasionally to keep things sweet. With the RAID set up can I disable the RAID, reformat and reinstall OS etc on one drive then access the other drive to copy all my data files back into the relevant folders then reformat that drive and set the RAID up again? Is it easy to do?
Also if I get a virus I assume it will get onto both drives and screw them both up so is it actually safer to run everything on one drive with no RAID and regularly ghost to the second drive?
