3 hard drives - how to manage

msukc

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Actually, I have 4 hard drives.

local C: 60 gb ssd with only windows, firefox and not much else. 43.7 free
J: 1 TB - with 52.1 available. lots of pics, music and vids on this drive
K: 500 gb with pics and movies. 84 gb avail. and some program files from my old windows 7 set up.
L: 1 TB external that has been a back up to my J drive photos and pics. 380 avail

So I think I will just delete the program files from my K drive. I used this drive when I had windows 7 because the 60 GB drive became full.

Now I am really ignorant to this stuff. I want to manage this stuff effectively. Importance is to back up family pics and videos. The rest I dont really care about. movies music if a drive crashes.

Any advice on how I should manage? I thought I could perhaps combine the three internal drives as one drive. Then use the external strictly as a back up.

Good idea? If so, how do I accomplish this with lots of data already on them?

Muchas gracias mi amigos!

KC
 
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It's gonna be tough with all of them pretty full already. If you have a motherboard with RAID support, you could set up a RAID1 array which mirrors all the data to both drives so you're safe if one of them dies unexpectedly. The system would continue on as if nothing happened.

without it, I'd look into back up software- acronis for windows is pretty good. there are many others.

I'd also look into a blue ray burner and recordable blue ray discs to make hard backups of irreplaceable family photos and videos. maybe even store them offsite or in a firesafe container.

bliq

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It's gonna be tough with all of them pretty full already. If you have a motherboard with RAID support, you could set up a RAID1 array which mirrors all the data to both drives so you're safe if one of them dies unexpectedly. The system would continue on as if nothing happened.

without it, I'd look into back up software- acronis for windows is pretty good. there are many others.

I'd also look into a blue ray burner and recordable blue ray discs to make hard backups of irreplaceable family photos and videos. maybe even store them offsite or in a firesafe container.
 
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