Hi I have a 1tb hard in my pc, but as I have a lot of important data am looking to set up a second drive in raid. To do this does the second drive have to be the same make or same size ?
All so do you set raid up via the bios ?
Hi I have a 1tb hard in my pc, but as I have a lot of important data am looking to set up a second drive in raid. To do this does the second drive have to be the same make or same size ?
All so do you set raid up via the bios ?
I think you'll be better to just copy the data to another drive as a backup.
To build a RAID you'll need 2 clean drives. And RAID doesn't stop you from deleting your important data by mistake, or file corrupted by virus.
It doesn't need to be of the same make or size. Although the array will be the size of the smaller drive.
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If the OS is on the drive as well you may also run into problems with swapping to raid.
You may get away with out two clean drives but to be safe i would always backup on a different drive.
I recently swapped the mobo in a nvidia raid 1 PC to a AMD raid 1 although it eventualy worked I had to do a repair install of windows and a few chkdisks and you need to take care on the options in the raid bios.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
As Fraz says, Raid like this, is not a backup solution, but just a means of continuing working when one drive fails.
If you want security, then having your data copied over to your second drive is a far better bet and there are numerous methods of doing this from RoboCopy through free applications to paid-for full fat bells and whistles.
Also, trying to set upa Raid system using an existing system/data drive if likely to be problamatic to say the least!
Colin
To use RAID, you do have to have two hard drives of the same nice, I don't believe that the make necessarily needs to be the same though.
Tim
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