Recent content by dodancs

Yeah, now, storing drives without power isn't also the best idea. One drop and all backups are gone. I think it's better to keep the other drive in my PC and just use a backup utility, that would do regular backups. These drives I am using are designed to be operated 24/7 so they should be just...

You're right, my data is very important to me, I want to improve my solution, but can only do it over time, so live and backup disk is a good solution, also maybe in combination with RSync or some similar software. I will look into this in the future.

That could be the culprit, I may try to reinstall Windows and see if it helps.

I'm living outside my city. I'm currently a student who also works alongside school. So I do not have much time/spare money as I pay for my own living. So setting up a NAS at the current place I live isn't really an option - don't have too much space. And buying an external 4TB drive is also...

So. I managed it. Partially at least. While still on my Intel platform, I followed the short tutorial for deleting Intel Raid 1 Array without data-loss. You simply go to their desktop utility, or when booting press Ctrl + i and you will be shown their Raid setup. So there I clicked Delete Raid...

How does this software raid work? Does it use some CPU/RAM overhead? So if I would to re-install windows, I would be able to keep the RAID-1 array? Sounds nice. I will look into this, much thanks!

Yeah, it's quite late for that. When I was building the PC I had a very tight budget so no LSI card for me. Later I only upgraded the storage to larger ones.

Hey all! First of all, this is my first time posting here and also not native speaker, so please forgive me my mistakes and if I explained something incorrectly, let me know and I will edit it. So, this is my current setup: a MSI Z87M Gaming motherboard. It's an Intel platform and I have two...