Hey, I just bought 2x8TB hard drives, I plan on having 1 as a backup drive in case of failures.
Here are the options I thought of:
Just want to note, I'm not really speaking about ransomware or anything like that, just hard drives lifespan.
Thanks for the help.
Here are the options I thought of:
- Having both drives always connected, and periodically backup from one drive to the other while the backup drive is on idle.
- Having one drive connected and 1 drive disconnected, and periodically connect just to backup and disconnect.
- Same as the option above, but after backing up leave the backup drive connected and disconnect the drive we backed up from(in short - switching between the working and backup drive).
- using RAID1, which is similar to option 1, but it's just not really a backup, but RAID1.....
Just want to note, I'm not really speaking about ransomware or anything like that, just hard drives lifespan.
Thanks for the help.