Hey guys,
I recently built my own computer, with and SSD drive and gave my old computer to my parents. It had a 160 GB raptor drive that ws connected by a SATA cable. In their old computer, they had a regular 160 GB IDE drive. I moved that drive over to my old machine, so they now have the 160 GB raptor drive (running the OD and applications) and a currently blank secondary drive that is connected by the IDE cable. Can I set these two drives up in a RAID 1 config so that their data is backed up on the secondary drive? Would there be a better solution? They have pictures and stuff they don't want to lose, and a redundant back up would be nice, but I am looking to do it for the cost of $0. If this can't be done, is there a software solution (preferably free) that will continuously back up folders you tell it to, to a secondary drive? Any help is greatly appreciated.
The motherboard (in case you need to know this) is the generic one that came with the computer. The computer was a Dell XPS 630i, which was a higher end machine, but I think the motherboard was still unspectacular. Thanks guys.
Ray
I recently built my own computer, with and SSD drive and gave my old computer to my parents. It had a 160 GB raptor drive that ws connected by a SATA cable. In their old computer, they had a regular 160 GB IDE drive. I moved that drive over to my old machine, so they now have the 160 GB raptor drive (running the OD and applications) and a currently blank secondary drive that is connected by the IDE cable. Can I set these two drives up in a RAID 1 config so that their data is backed up on the secondary drive? Would there be a better solution? They have pictures and stuff they don't want to lose, and a redundant back up would be nice, but I am looking to do it for the cost of $0. If this can't be done, is there a software solution (preferably free) that will continuously back up folders you tell it to, to a secondary drive? Any help is greatly appreciated.
The motherboard (in case you need to know this) is the generic one that came with the computer. The computer was a Dell XPS 630i, which was a higher end machine, but I think the motherboard was still unspectacular. Thanks guys.
Ray
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