Recent content by ThorPan

Although a bit off topic, but most people mentioned performing backups of their data. I'd prefer to do an image copy of my RAID 1 drives to further ensure a speedy recovery should other than 1 of the RAID drives die. My preference is to have it automatically performed at least weekly onto a...

It's saved my butt several times since I've had to replace several drives over the years on this machine. Fortunately, HDD drives are extremely cheap!

I can't even remember the last time I heard of a motherboard dying on anyone, but that is where the backup would come into play. Unfortunately full backups do take awhile to make on a 2TB drive, especially if it's a clone. Using an internal HDD would probably speed that along some, but a good...

Thanks to all who responded! I realize that RAID 0 is NOT the way to go since if one drive dies, you've lost everything! RAID 1 gives me 100% uptime since if one drive dies, the other drive continues on. The bad drive can be replaced in a matter of minutes and can automatically be set clone...

I want to use RAID 1 on a new Dell XPS PC using two 2 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD drives and Intel RST. This will be a new PC with the OS already installed on the primary SSD drive and the other 2 TB drive will be empty. Creating a RAID 1 drive will be relatively easy to do since all that...