HeTiCu13
New Member
Hello.
Earlier this year I had a NVMe M.2 go end-of-life on one of my computers, and the process of replacing it pretty much necessitated a complete OS reinstall. Since this was not my main computer, I was content with buying the new SSD card and spending the time to make the upgrade, new OS install included.
However, my main gaming computer uses SSD drives like the WDS500. If that drive suddenly goes bad (I monitor it with WD Dashboard) then I would most likely lose ALL of my games (and there are a lot) which I would then have to redownload (through clients like steam and bigfish) after replacing the drive.
I got to thinking today: What if I could go ahead and buy a second SSD drive, same size and all, and configure it to be a duplicate of drive 0, using RAID 1? And what if it was easy to set up and easy to replace a failed drive like in a NAS, which has 2 hot-swap-able HDDs?
So the mission would be to keep a redundant copy of my OS (including games) so if/when one SSD fails, I could easily buy a new one and swap it out. Is this a feasible thing? Would my MB have to manage that, and if so, how do I find out whether my MB can manage that? Somewhere in the BIOS settings?
Or is there a 3rd party software that one installs to manage this type of scenario?
Thanks for any info! Or for any tutorial links that have already laid all this out!
Earlier this year I had a NVMe M.2 go end-of-life on one of my computers, and the process of replacing it pretty much necessitated a complete OS reinstall. Since this was not my main computer, I was content with buying the new SSD card and spending the time to make the upgrade, new OS install included.
However, my main gaming computer uses SSD drives like the WDS500. If that drive suddenly goes bad (I monitor it with WD Dashboard) then I would most likely lose ALL of my games (and there are a lot) which I would then have to redownload (through clients like steam and bigfish) after replacing the drive.
I got to thinking today: What if I could go ahead and buy a second SSD drive, same size and all, and configure it to be a duplicate of drive 0, using RAID 1? And what if it was easy to set up and easy to replace a failed drive like in a NAS, which has 2 hot-swap-able HDDs?
So the mission would be to keep a redundant copy of my OS (including games) so if/when one SSD fails, I could easily buy a new one and swap it out. Is this a feasible thing? Would my MB have to manage that, and if so, how do I find out whether my MB can manage that? Somewhere in the BIOS settings?
Or is there a 3rd party software that one installs to manage this type of scenario?
Thanks for any info! Or for any tutorial links that have already laid all this out!