Raid Question
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I don't have a RAID setup at the minute, never used it before to be honest.
I'm looking to buy a second F3 500GB. I saw the 1TB Samsung for only £10 more.
I want the 500GB purely for redundancy. But for the future I might exceed the capacity.
So I was wondering whether I could get a 500GB now and when I exceed its capacity, RAID 0 the two 500GB drive and add 1TB later for redundancy, when and if I need to.
Also I have a Win7 64BIT system if that helps?
I'm looking to buy a second F3 500GB. I saw the 1TB Samsung for only £10 more.
I want the 500GB purely for redundancy. But for the future I might exceed the capacity.
So I was wondering whether I could get a 500GB now and when I exceed its capacity, RAID 0 the two 500GB drive and add 1TB later for redundancy, when and if I need to.
Also I have a Win7 64BIT system if that helps?
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I don't agree with what you say.
In my opinion, from purely a redundancy point of view I look it as:
Create RAID 1 array.
One hard-disk crashes. Restore from another.
Not difficult. How do you manage RAID?
You don't. It takes a few minutes to setup and then you leave it.
Finding backup scripts that use system resources. Thats worse.
Dedicated RAID chips found on many motherboards these days uses its own processing power and does not use system resources, so it'll be faster and won't interfere with whatever you're doing.
Sure RAID is a must in the business environment.
But, the fact it is incorporated into motherboard for personal use shows that mainstream users are embracing RAID as a better alternative to software backup.
In my opinion, from purely a redundancy point of view I look it as:
Create RAID 1 array.
One hard-disk crashes. Restore from another.
Not difficult. How do you manage RAID?
You don't. It takes a few minutes to setup and then you leave it.
Finding backup scripts that use system resources. Thats worse.
Dedicated RAID chips found on many motherboards these days uses its own processing power and does not use system resources, so it'll be faster and won't interfere with whatever you're doing.
Sure RAID is a must in the business environment.
But, the fact it is incorporated into motherboard for personal use shows that mainstream users are embracing RAID as a better alternative to software backup.