I will soon be building my AMD machine. I have purchased two 200gb Seagate Barrcuda SATA drives to configure in to backup mirrors under RAID 1.
Yesterday, I saw another question where the gentleman spoke of partitioning his harddrive with say 20% operating system and the balance storage. Thereafter, he was going to Raid 1 a second drive to mirror the storage section of the 1st drive. At least, this is what I believe he was indicating.
At any rate, such a situation had never occured to me. Due to my photography, my intent was simply to have one drive completely mirror the other such that if one failed, I had a duplicate drive up and ready.
Should I change my plans at all? Is there some advantage that I am missing?
I am also a gamer, delta force mainly, so I do plan to do some overclocking. I understand that the mirrored sata setup will hinder my ability to overclock as much as non mirrored systems; however, I want to be able to protect my photos. I do not want to explain why marriage photos no longer exists.
Your thoughts please?
Thank you in advance...
Yesterday, I saw another question where the gentleman spoke of partitioning his harddrive with say 20% operating system and the balance storage. Thereafter, he was going to Raid 1 a second drive to mirror the storage section of the 1st drive. At least, this is what I believe he was indicating.
At any rate, such a situation had never occured to me. Due to my photography, my intent was simply to have one drive completely mirror the other such that if one failed, I had a duplicate drive up and ready.
Should I change my plans at all? Is there some advantage that I am missing?
I am also a gamer, delta force mainly, so I do plan to do some overclocking. I understand that the mirrored sata setup will hinder my ability to overclock as much as non mirrored systems; however, I want to be able to protect my photos. I do not want to explain why marriage photos no longer exists.
Your thoughts please?
Thank you in advance...