![]() That basically means that I use a “fake RAID” hardware controller or a solution managed completely by Windows. Being that I’m cheap, have an old (4 years is old, right?) system, and just need a bare-minimum amount of reliability I’m looking for the cheapest way to add a couple of mirrored drives. ![]() music, movies, etc.).ĭisk drives are cheap (1.5TB is currently running around $100), but industrial-grade RAID controllers are not. Also, I plan to put data on that disk that I would be annoyed to lose, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world (i.e. While I fully realize that redundant hard disks are not a substitute for a backup, I do want to use a RAID array to reduce the likelihood that I have to restore that data from a backup. This past month I’ve realized the simultaneous need to add more hard drive storage and decrease the probability of losing the data stored within. How good is Windows 7 software RAID? Is it faster or slower than a cheap hardware controller (aka “fake RAID”)?
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