Hello, firstly is this is simply a copy of an existing thread please don't hesitate to redirect...
I currently have a single HDD with everything on it; OS, music, program files etc and with my laptop drive recently failed am keen for some redundancy. I think RAID1 would suite me best as I feel I can just set up and ignore until anything goes wrong.
However, I don't have the ability to back up the drive and don't want to lose anything on the RAID setup (which I have heard I will). Is there a way of adding a second drive without losing data?
I currently have:
1TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1 Terabyte 7200RPM HDD
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard (which supports RAID1)
Windows 7 Home Premium
Secondly could I slightly upgrade to a Hybrid drive when I setup the RAID array? Like this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ELAVIQ0
Would I gain anything from the hybrid? Or would the RAID1 setup mean its only as fast as the slowest drive?
Thanks for any feedback, especially if you have done this yourself!
I currently have a single HDD with everything on it; OS, music, program files etc and with my laptop drive recently failed am keen for some redundancy. I think RAID1 would suite me best as I feel I can just set up and ignore until anything goes wrong.
However, I don't have the ability to back up the drive and don't want to lose anything on the RAID setup (which I have heard I will). Is there a way of adding a second drive without losing data?
I currently have:
1TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1 Terabyte 7200RPM HDD
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard (which supports RAID1)
Windows 7 Home Premium
Secondly could I slightly upgrade to a Hybrid drive when I setup the RAID array? Like this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ELAVIQ0
Would I gain anything from the hybrid? Or would the RAID1 setup mean its only as fast as the slowest drive?
Thanks for any feedback, especially if you have done this yourself!