RAID on Storage drives

huzi7868 · Jan 21, 2014

Hello, i have a 480GB SSD as my primary boot drive and for my main applications. My secondary drive is a 1TB seagate HDD, on which are all my important files. I want to purchase another 1TB seagate HDD to backup my secondary drive... e.g. in a RAID configuration. I dont really care about my os SSD and backing that up. Just the secondary HDD with my important data.

My question, is it possible to RAID the two secondary drives?
Can anybody help? Cheers in advance.

jitpublisher · Jan 21, 2014

RAID is a horrible backup solution. RAID is for refundancy(computer keeps running if 1 drive fails) anything that happens to your data on 1 drive in RAID, happens to the other drive too. Buy a backup program, or use the backup software in Windows to back up your data from 1 drive to another, but DO NOT use a RAIDED array as a backup for important data you do not want to lose,you will regret it later, I promise you.

huzi7868 · Jan 21, 2014

jitpublisher :

Thank you. However my question was more in regards to if it is possible to RAID a secondary drive. and the reason i want to do it is becuase if one of my drives fails i want to have the data automatically backed up to another drive.

I want auto backups not manual, and i want them to be instant

ss202sl · Jan 21, 2014

Like as has been said RAID is not a backup.
Raid will not protect you from viruses, corruption, accidental deletion - things not hardware related, but probably more likely to happen. A backup will.
A better solution is to get a couple of external drives. Do your backups to them, and keep one off-site (maybe at the office). This way you have easy access to backups, as well as protection from a catastrophic event(like a fire) that takes out the entire system.

If you want to go with raid, you'll have to backup first because setting up a raid will wipe any data on the current drive.

huzi7868 · Jan 21, 2014

ss202sl :

Thank you. Let me rephrase then. i want to be safe from hardware failure. Is it possible to raid secondary drives? (not os drives). I will also backup to an external harddrive.

jitpublisher · Jan 21, 2014

Yes, you can make a raid array as a secondary storage solution. Sorry for the preachy post above, I know that was not exactly the answer you were looking for, but I guess you will find out for yourself why what you are thinking about doing is such a bad idea.

ss202sl · Jan 21, 2014

It should be possible to raid only the secondary drives. go into the bios and set up the raid with only the 2 1TB drives and initialize it. This should leave the SSD alone.

Hawkeye22 · Jan 21, 2014

Initializing the array may be destructive. It depends on your raid controller. In this case, you would need to backup the data, create the array, then restore the data to the array.

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