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HD options for my use.

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CEV

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Hi, I just found this site and have been checking it out the past few days. Looks like a lot of good info. I am wondering if I could get a few of your opinions? I currently have a Maxtor 120GB SATA HD. I am finding that I could use more room. I do a little video editing, playing with digital pictures, and listening to MP3's. This is in addition of course to email and web browsing. My main concerns with the HD upgrade are performance and redundancy, and of course price. Would a good option be to get 2 of the new Maxtor 300GB drives with the 16MB Buffer and set them up for RAID Mirroring? Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,

Chad
 
unless you are extreemly worried about harddrive failure, i wouldnt run a raid 1 (raid 1 will only save your data in the case of a harddrive failure. it wont protect it from being accidentally deleted, or from virus, etc)

but yeah, any of those new harddrives will work well for you. personally i like the seagate since they are not as loud 🙂
 
Another reason I was looking at Raid was the ease of backup. You do not even need to worry about it. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Chad
 
but you do need to backup... as a said in my first post. a raid only protects you from harddrive failure. but any other type of data loss will lose data from both drives at the same time.
 
Also from what I've read even the 16MB cache doesn't make the Maxtor THAT fast. The 200GB Seagate Barracuda whacks it for speed in many ways, and I don't know about the US but here in the UK the Maxtor is nearly twice the price for only 50% more capacity
 
Originally posted by: Boonesmi
but you do need to backup... as a said in my first post. a raid only protects you from harddrive failure. but any other type of data loss will lose data from both drives at the same time.
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Yes...I understand that I need to backup. I was just referring to the ease of useing mirroring as a backup.

Thanks,

Chad
 
Originally posted by: CEV
Originally posted by: Boonesmi
but you do need to backup... as a said in my first post. a raid only protects you from harddrive failure. but any other type of data loss will lose data from both drives at the same time.
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Yes...I understand that I need to backup. I was just referring to the ease of useing mirroring as a backup.

Thanks,

Chad
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but thats the problem, mirroring is not backing up. im getting the impression you dont understand how raid 1 works
 
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