Raid question

William-Mathew · 18 Aug 2014 at 11:20

Hey guys

So someone wants me to put raid 1 into their system. They have a 60gb SSD boot drive/programs and then the documents save onto the HHD. Is there a way to mirror both what is on the SSD and the HHD onto another HHD?

Its on windows 7

Thanks for any suggestions

Will

rpstewart · 18 Aug 2014 at 11:47

Raid1 is a single disk mirroring solution. You can't (at least not sensibly) do what you're proposing..

Even if you could the performance hit on SSD writes would negate the point of the SSD.

William-Mathew · 18 Aug 2014 at 15:48

Ok. Could I just back up the documents on the HHD with raid 1 and not bother about the SSD?

rpstewart · 18 Aug 2014 at 17:33

You could do that but remember RAID1 is not a backup solution, its an availability solution. All it protects against is a disk failure. It won't help for data corruption, accidental deletion etc because the change is written to both disks simultaneously.

If you're looking for a proper backup then an external disk and some decent software is the way to go. Only problem is that option requires some user intervention

Stelly · 18 Aug 2014 at 17:41

rpstewart said:
You could do that but remember RAID1 is not a backup solution, its an availability solution. All it protects against is a disk failure. It won't help for data corruption, accidental deletion etc because the change is written to both disks simultaneously.

If you're looking for a proper backup then an external disk and some decent software is the way to go. Only problem is that option requires some user intervention

Nice post

You could just setup a backup once on a schedule

Stelly