I just bought some new ram, and want to upgrade from windows 7 32 bit to windows 7 64 bit. I do some gaming (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3), and I browse about a hundred firefox tabs at once. I figure the ram upgrade will stop firefox from crashing so frequently. I also watch a lot of youtube videos.
Right now, I have 4 500gb hdds in a raid 0. I don't use much HDD space (500gb is more than I would ever use). So I was wondering, what practical differences would I notice from going from a 4 disc raid 0 to a 4 disc raid 1? (I don't have a controller other than the onboard raid). I ask this, as the drives are about 1-2 years old, and I'd like to have some type of a backup of my files/notes.
Or should I use 3 disks in the raid 1 and 1 disk as another drive and us it to backup my data like once a week? Or is that stupid and a waste of time because the raid 1 is like an automatic backup? I'm open to suggestions on what to do with the disks
Here are my specs, I'm also open to critiques on them:
GA-P55-USB3 (rev. 1.0)
4x4GB DDR3 1866 Gskill Ares RAM
x4 3gb/s 500gb WD Black HDDs in RAID 0
Intel i5 750
GeForce N250GTS 512DDR3 256bit
Right now, I have 4 500gb hdds in a raid 0. I don't use much HDD space (500gb is more than I would ever use). So I was wondering, what practical differences would I notice from going from a 4 disc raid 0 to a 4 disc raid 1? (I don't have a controller other than the onboard raid). I ask this, as the drives are about 1-2 years old, and I'd like to have some type of a backup of my files/notes.
Or should I use 3 disks in the raid 1 and 1 disk as another drive and us it to backup my data like once a week? Or is that stupid and a waste of time because the raid 1 is like an automatic backup? I'm open to suggestions on what to do with the disks
Here are my specs, I'm also open to critiques on them:
GA-P55-USB3 (rev. 1.0)
4x4GB DDR3 1866 Gskill Ares RAM
x4 3gb/s 500gb WD Black HDDs in RAID 0
Intel i5 750
GeForce N250GTS 512DDR3 256bit