HDD OS transfer and RAID????

liquidmonkey

liquidmonkey

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i have the following setup...

1 TB Western Digital SATA II
1 TB Western Digital SATA II
320 GB Western Digital SATA
200 GB Maxtor SATA

and then 4 x 500 GB externals but i want to sell those :)

and my main C: drive is the 320gig which i want to change to the brand spanking new 1 TB WD SATA II drive as i think i will get faster speeds. what programs(s) would i need to use to transfer my OS to another HDD?

and do you think i should RAID this setup? never done that before and know nothing about RAID. is it good? faster? what does it do? (don't worry, i'll google RAID a bit later, just heading out).


what would u experts do with a set up like this?
 
You would use ghosting software to copy over or you could download the utility to actually copy drive to drive. As far as raid goes, raid 0 is for supposedly faster read/write access but you will lose all your data if a drive goes out. Raid 1 means whatever data is on drive 1 will be on drive 2, data reduntancy. So if 1 drive fails you still have a good drive that has all your data on it. And its just a matter of getting another drive, hooking it up and the raid will rebuild itself automatically.
 
thanks for that.
looks like i won't be using a RAID setup as i already do my own regular backups via a synchronization tool that i find very useful :)

now as far as ghosting my drive, i'm wondering...

1) does each drive need to be exactly the same size? the only thing i want to 'ghost' is the OS and all installed programs / games etc.

2) norton ghost is the only one i know, are there others? recommendations?

3) since i'm using a 1TB drive for my 'c' drive, should i make 2 partitions, 1 for the ghosted OS and one for the other files. my reasoning would be that if the main OS partition goes for a sh&t, then i can still access the other files on the other partition. or is that thinking wrong? are there special types of partitions i should make to ensure best useability / quality?

thanks...
 
I would make more than 1 partition on a drive that size. On a 250 gb drive I make 1 partition for OS and the other for data. You can ghost a smaller drive to a bigger drive. There is Acronis True Image as well.
 
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