I currently have 1 SSD that isn't big enough, so I bought a 2nd SSD (500GB + 1TB). RAID 0 seems like the way to go, with failure as a major concern. So, I also bought a 3TB HDD to use primarily as a backup (and partition part of it to use as a regular drive occasionally). However, I don't want the HDD running all the time, only when it's being used as a backup drive, or when I need to access the partitioned drive (a main reason why I went with SSD is for the quiet factor, running the HDD all the time would defeat the purpose). What's the best way to go about this? I do have another/separate SSD for my Windows OS, which I won't touch for this extra storage. All this data is just files/images, not programs/games, etc. My goal is to have 1 "drive" for my files/images, not 2 (later down the road possibly 3 or 4) separate "drives", I would go crazy managing all of that.
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2 SSD running in RAID, HDD as backup
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Mattios
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Your best bet is to just mirror the SSD files onto a folder on the HDD. Consider running a command in Powershell
robocopy C:\ D:\C_Backup /COPYALL /B /SEC /MIR /R:0 /W:0
Where C is OS and D is backup drive. I haven't tested that command so you may need to add quotes to the source/destination etc.
robocopy C:\ D:\C_Backup /COPYALL /B /SEC /MIR /R:0 /W:0
Where C is OS and D is backup drive. I haven't tested that command so you may need to add quotes to the source/destination etc.
Thanks Mattios for the Powershell idea. Here is my full script, for others who would want to use it:
# Script Variables
$SourceFolder = "source folder here"
$DestinationFolder = "destination folder here"
$Logfile = "logfile location here"
# Email Variables
$From = "enter a from email here"
$To = "enter your to email here"
$Subject = "Robocopy Summary"
$Body = "Robocopy completed successfully. See attached log file for details"
$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
$SMTPPort = "587"
$credentials = new-object Management.Automation.PSCredential “GmailUsernameWithoutThe@gmail.com”, (“EnterYourPasswordHere” | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force)
#Script
robocopy $SourceFolder $DestinationFolder /E /R:1 /W:30 /LOG:$Logfile
# Email gmail log file
Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Subject $Subject -Body $Body -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -port $SMTPPort -UseSsl -Credential $credentials -Attachments $Logfile
# Script Variables
$SourceFolder = "source folder here"
$DestinationFolder = "destination folder here"
$Logfile = "logfile location here"
# Email Variables
$From = "enter a from email here"
$To = "enter your to email here"
$Subject = "Robocopy Summary"
$Body = "Robocopy completed successfully. See attached log file for details"
$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
$SMTPPort = "587"
$credentials = new-object Management.Automation.PSCredential “GmailUsernameWithoutThe@gmail.com”, (“EnterYourPasswordHere” | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force)
#Script
robocopy $SourceFolder $DestinationFolder /E /R:1 /W:30 /LOG:$Logfile
# Email gmail log file
Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Subject $Subject -Body $Body -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -port $SMTPPort -UseSsl -Credential $credentials -Attachments $Logfile
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