This seems odd and I'm asking out of curiosity (I saw a bunch of deals on Tigerdirect for 1TB's). If I wanted to have a 500gb HDD for a WinXP install and another 500gb for a Win7 install, AND a 1TB to back them up..... Would any kind of raid setup work? From what I've read you need a separate HDD for each Raid 1 array. (meaning I can't magically pretend that my 1TB is two 500gb's). Or should I just have a backup program for each OS and have the program save the disk images to the 1TB?
This - Raid setups are not backups. They only protect against drive failure, not malicious programs or careless users deleting files, or overwriting that document instead of saving a copy. Nightly backups for the Win.
^ +1 - Drive Redundancy and Backups are different things. If you're still interested in going RAID 1, I think the AMD chipset is limited on the functionality and will not 'see' partitions on the 1TB drive. I believe the Intel Matrix implementation does allow for this, but you haven't got an Intel board according to your sig Cheers, SouperAndy
Thanks guys. That helped a lot. And the reason I asked this was to protect myself from drive failure. I am usually very careful about what I delete. Thanks for the fast responses.
