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I have a Win 7 - 64 bit system with a 256GB SSD as the C drive (there is also a small "P" partition on the SSD).

I want to have a second 256 GB SSD with similar partitions, and I want the "C" partition from the first drive cloned to the second (the cloned partition would be updated daily so it was always and up-to-date clone). Effectively, I want to have a "second C drive" in the computer, or a "C" and a "C1", with the boot order set to boot first from C then C1 ... basically a back up so if first C ever becomes unbootable, I will have a clone boot drive already in the computer, ready to go.

Is this as easy as installing the second SSD, then cloning the existing C to a new partition letter and lastly setting the boot sequence so that the cloned C on the second SSD is the second in boot order?

Thanks.

 
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Unfortunately consumer SSD's are not more reliable than hard drives, they just don't fail due to shock damage like hard...
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Well, it depends on what you want to achieve. If you want 100% uptime then you can just create a RAID1 array and do a disk level backup to another drive for data protection.
If you want to have daily full disk backups, and you're okay with up to an hour of downtime to clone the drive each day to the other SSD, then you can do what you described.

My recommendation would be to do a RAID1 mirror and have a separate backup on a third drive, Just a normal hard drive would be fine for the backup.
 
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Thx ... I have the external back up now to an NAS.

I understand about the RAID 1 suggestion (I used to run RAID 1 for the boot drive). With an SSD, RAID 1 is a little overkill (I think), because the SSD is so reliable, but if I perform a daily back up clone, why not have the back up SSD already inside the computer and ready to boot to? My question was more about creating a bootable clone that exists inside the computer as well (right now, my C clone in on my NAS and would have to be "restored" to a new SSD if the first one fails).

Basically, how to clone the C to "C1" on an SSD that lives inside the computer.
 
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Unfortunately consumer SSD's are not more reliable than hard drives, they just don't fail due to shock damage like hard drives do. That's literally the only notable difference in reliability.

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As long as you do a disk level clone, it should be bootable and you'll just need to select it as the boot device as you described.
 
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