SATA and RAID how to set up mirror?

[Zog]

XP Pro. P4 2.53, 1G RAM, 2 HD 80+120, ASUS P4P800, Thermaltake Xaser III, Thermaltake 480w PSU.

My original Western Digital 80MB hard drive is starting to give me error warnings through START hard drive monitoring. The drive is about 10 months old. I called WDC today and found out these error messages, (WARNING attribute raw read error rate changes from 67 to 68, or 69 to 68, or 68 to 67, or 60 to 61. or, WARNING attribute seek error rate changes from 61 to 62), is an indication the drive is starting to fail. They are sending me a no charge replacement right away and I have 30 days to send the old one to them.
This is what I am going to do, but I'm not sure of the exact BIOS RAID setting. My second drive is now a month old and is a (Norton) Ghost copy of the C drive. Both are IDE set ups. My new C drive will be a Seagate 120MB SATA type. I need to copy, exactly, the existing C drive onto the new SATA drive to use for the boot drive. First question: what software do I use? WDC or Seagate to copy or Norton Ghost?

Secondly, I want the backup drive to use the RAID function to constantly mirror the C drive(which will be SATA) so that the backup will be automatically and constantly an exact mirror copy.
Do I use RAID 0 or 1,2,3, or 4. I think it's RAID 0(zero)but I would like to be sure. Any one else ever done this?

 

[pcmax]

Yes, millions have tried and millions have succeeded! Yes ghost is probably the best utility to accomplish the copy from one drive to another. For the mirroring you simply need a serial raid capable motherboard or serial raid card. Both these devices will have a raid bios utility that you can enter and usually choose to either do raid 0 which is striping, no data redundancy but fastest data access or raid 1 which is mirroring, writes identical copy each and every time to both drives.

 

[awolkoff]

Originally posted by: Zog
Do I use RAID 0 or 1,2,3, or 4. I think it's RAID 0(zero)but I would like to be sure. Any one else ever done this?

RAID-0
RAID Level 0 is not redundant, hence does not truly fit the "RAID" acronym. In level 0, data is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughput. Since no redundant information is stored, performance is very good, but the failure of any disk in the array results in data loss. This level is commonly referred to as striping.
RAID-1
RAID Level 1 provides redundancy by writing all data to two or more drives. The performance of a level 1 array tends to be faster on reads and slower on writes compared to a single drive, but if either drive fails, no data is lost. This is a good entry-level redundant system, since only two drives are required; however, since one drive is used to store a duplicate of the data, the cost per megabyte is high. This level is commonly referred to as mirroring.

the above is from here.