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Griffinsclaw- We also use a similar setup, although with 2) 1tb Samsung SSD's setup as RAID1. The sole purpose of my setting up RAID1 was to eliminate having to re-O/S when a drive craps out, which they do. My computer experience goes back to the days of 10 meg HDD, and I've re-O/S'd so many...

"I am wondering if there is a tool available that will allow me to format only a portion of the HDD? For example, despite having 2Tb disks, i know that i never filled anymore than 200gb on any of these..." How do you know that the FAT utilized just the first 200gb? Just wondering why you don't...

Thank you for informative responses. Uptime is important to me, even though I'm fully backed up with Carbonite. Re-O/S'ing is a painful and time consuming experience, have done enough of them during the last 30+ years of computing. Jim Z

Been using a pair of Samsung 850 EVO 1tb drives in a RAID1 setup using Intel Rapid Storage for about 5 years. About the 3year mark, I started getting a failure of one of the drives. Samsung would replace the drive, and after rebuilding the RAID, all was well again. Just recently rec'd a...