Harddrive Setup

[Kairouseki]

So I have a 1TB HDD in my computer and have yet to backup anything (:fffuuu . I was wondering what a good HDD setup would be. I’ve heard of multiple things such as different types of RAID, just having Windows backup to a separate HDD, putting the OS on a SSD then everything else on a HDD.

What would you guys recommend?

Edit: Meant to post this in Help but oh well.

[BaTz281]

RAID is okay, but it’s usually a full-time solution (i.e. if you run your computer on a RAID, the drives are running as long as your PC does, so they get a lot of running hours). To be TRULY backed up, you need at least 2 copies of any given file (the source and the backup) and preferably a backup that is off-site (to eliminate fire/flood/theft/etc).

That said, a realistic/economic backup would involve at least one external hard drive that you only turn on when you’re running a backup and turn off immediately after. Once you have that external, the process by which you backup is entirely up to you -

1. Just do a straight copy/paste from your internal drive to the external (simple but takes a long time, and can’t do a true system recovery since you’d be missing the MBR).
2. Use Windows backup and tell it to backup to the external
3. Get yourself some imaging software, such as Macrium Reflect (free), Acronis True Image Home, etc, which will allow you to do incremental backups and such.

[Luciel]

Might have missed something but you need at the very least 2 hard drives of the same size to make raid (in a backup configuration)

[Kairouseki]

Yeah I’ll get another HDD once I figure out what to do with it .