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Hello,
If I were to configure my second HDD in my computer as a backup drive for my first, could I also use it to store stand-alone files?
Basically I have about 500GB of data on my 1TB system drive. I want to back that up onto my second drive. However, could I also use my second drive as say, a scratch drive whilst video editing, or to record footage from a screen recorder like FRAPS onto? Or must it be exclusively for backup?
Thanks,
Adam
Depends what you mean by backup to be honest.
If you have 500GB of data on a 1TB system drive (C:), and a 1TB backup drive (we'll call it E:), then you could set up some software to backup that data onto the backup drive, in the folder E:\Backup.
That would leave 500GB spare on drive E:, and then you could use E:\Fraps or E:\Temp as you wished, any folder.
If you wanted to make E: a direct mirror of C:, then obviously that wouldn't work. Also, it's not really a backup since fire, theft, electrical spike or PSU failure, SATA corruption from the mobo might wipe out both drives simultaneously.
Ok thank you, I meant the first option, as a backup rather than a mirror.Quote:
Originally Posted by snootyjim
And yes that is true. The primary function is as a drive to record files too using Dxtory. But I figured I'd probably only have a maximum of 500GB of data on it at any one time, so I might as well use the rest to "back up" my C: drive against pure HDD failure.
Thanks for the response!!
Yeah, I don't see why not.
An harddrive is a harddrive, you can do whatever you want with it, put data on it, leave it empty, whatever.
Lol agree with IronWarrior. You can should be able to put stand alone files one :)
@snootyjim, thanks for your explaination.