
Originally Posted by
snootyjim
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.