I had a crash earlier in the week. I didn't think it would be a big deal since I had an image of the disc from May and I run the hourly file backup through Win 10. For whatever reason, Win 10 would not read the image backup, and I tried everything I could think of. What I ended up doing was reinstall Windows, and then restore all of the files. Of course then I had to reinstall all the programs. After it was all done, I did a fresh image save. So here's my question:
Given the issues that I had with the image back up, I wanted a quicker solution. I ordered a second hard drive identical to the main drive: a 2 TB SSD. Through a bit of research, it appears that I can mirror this drive to the main drive, so if the main drive fails I could boot from the mirror. Please correct me if I am understanding this wrong. I figure that if the main drive dies mechanically, this would be a good option. But what if the main drive doesn't fail mechanically? This past crash seemed to be due to corruption of the OS. If I had a mirrored drive, would that corruption also be mirrored? If so, that may not be a good solution.
Finally, if there is a third party option do do what I am describing, I'm all ears. There are two things that I want:
Given the issues that I had with the image back up, I wanted a quicker solution. I ordered a second hard drive identical to the main drive: a 2 TB SSD. Through a bit of research, it appears that I can mirror this drive to the main drive, so if the main drive fails I could boot from the mirror. Please correct me if I am understanding this wrong. I figure that if the main drive dies mechanically, this would be a good option. But what if the main drive doesn't fail mechanically? This past crash seemed to be due to corruption of the OS. If I had a mirrored drive, would that corruption also be mirrored? If so, that may not be a good solution.
Finally, if there is a third party option do do what I am describing, I'm all ears. There are two things that I want:
- an up to date identical drive
- a reliable backup strategy that doesn't take two days to restore the computer to it's prior state.