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can you back up a Ssd + Hdd system to a single external Hdd

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October 7, 2014 11:48:39 PM

Hi all

Im building a new system and im looking at going for a Ssd as a boot drive and a Hdd as an archive drive. What im wondering is if I should go two smaller external drives as back ups or could I use a single external drive and back up both the Ssd and Hdd to a single external drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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October 8, 2014 12:09:28 AM

What is the meaning of backup to you?
Objectively backup is saving your personal files elsewhere so that if something happens to your pc (from electricity damage to water flood!) your files will be safe or at least an old version of them. So you only need one external disk where you will copy paste only your files from both your disks to it.

If you are talking about backup of the whole SSD and hard disk, meaning that you want to save your personal files on both disks AND windows then you need some special programs that create an image file of a disk and those programs are capable of restoring this image file back to the disks or any new other disk. This is the meaning of backing up a whole disk drive, if it dies you plug in another and restore the image with the tools of that special program. Paragon software, Acronis true image are some good tools. In this case again, you only need one external drive as it will just contain 2 huge files after the backup process, each one being an image file of your disks.

So in both cases you only need one external hard drive and the only limit or rule is of course its capacity to be big enough to fit the data of both your disks, either personal files, or 2 hard disk image files.
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October 8, 2014 12:13:39 AM

Thanks for the fast answer that's everything I wanted to know you sir are a god
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