Raid for personal computers

[boylover]

do you guys think that it's good to setup raid on your desktop? pros and cons please.

previous experience that when my harddisk crash, all data gone and have to go through the hassle to reinstall everything plus personal pictures all gone...

do i need to get a raid card or just put in another harddisk for the above purpose? using a dell dimension btw.

thanks in advance for your advice!

 

[singveld]

regularly backup your data to USB harddisks.
raid is not needed for PC

 

[boylover]

whoa lau eh! it will be waste of time, besides, i won't need to reinstall. and some precious pictures won't be lost. still trying to look for my old USA pictures.:(

regularly backup your data to USB harddisks.
raid is not needed for PC

 

[erection2015]

ask Raiders about raids.....ask tonychat about aids

 

[po2wq]

do you guys think that it's good to setup raid on your desktop? ...

u shud go ask forumer raiders ... he performs raids ...

 

[Leongsam]

thanks in advance for your advice!

Raid is redundant backup. You don't even have ANY backup.

All you need is a portable USB drive and software that does smart backup every 24 hours or so. If your drive dies, you simply replace it and read everything back and you're up and running in about 30 minutes with EVERYTHING restored to the way it was.

It so easy. I'm dismayed that so few people bother and live to regret it sooner or later.

ALL hard drives die. It's just a matter of when. Even SSDs are not bulletproof.

 

[halsey02]

Raid is redundant backup. You don't even have ANY backup.

All you need is a portable USB drive and software that does smart backup every 24 hours or so. If your drive dies, you simply replace it and read everything back and you're up and running in about 30 minutes with EVERYTHING restored to the way it was.

It so easy. I'm dismayed that so few people bother and live to regret it sooner or later.

ALL hard drives die. It's just a matter of when. Even SSDs are not bulletproof.

SSD....one bad electrical charge, "So Sorry, Dominic"...so to speak...windows restore is a pain, ok we shall not dive into this, too many memories...still we must back up everyday, my experience & the backups must have backups...what a weird world we live in, but that is the truth!

 

[boylover]

i see that you must be the host of this forum , boss sam leong. i have heard a lot about you, all good things!

what i am trying to achieve here is to kick in either harddisk should one fail.

those backup are crap! must sync here and there. and when primary harddisk fail, you still need to waste time go and reinstall every application.

Raid is redundant backup. You don't even have ANY backup.

All you need is a portable USB drive and software that does smart backup every 24 hours or so. If your drive dies, you simply replace it and read everything back and you're up and running in about 30 minutes with EVERYTHING restored to the way it was.

It so easy. I'm dismayed that so few people bother and live to regret it sooner or later.

ALL hard drives die. It's just a matter of when. Even SSDs are not bulletproof.

 

[wikiphile]

i see that you must be the host of this forum , boss sam leong. i have heard a lot about you, all good things!

what i am trying to achieve here is to kick in either harddisk should one fail.

those backup are crap! must sync here and there. and when primary harddisk fail, you still need to waste time go and reinstall every application.

your sah kah kung fu very good, dunno to up you or zap you...headache :*:

 

[Leongsam]

those backup are crap! must sync here and there. and when primary harddisk fail, you still need to waste time go and reinstall every application.

I would have thought windoze had solved those sorts of problems a long time ago. I guess I was wrong.

On my Mac, I have time machine. If my hard drive dies, I simply restore from my time machine and the new drive ends up EXACTLY the same as the old one without having to reinstall anything.

 

[boylover]

do what you think is right...:o

your sah kah kung fu very good, dunno to up you or zap you...headache :*:

 

[halsey02]

I would have thought windoze had solved those sorts of problems a long time ago. I guess I was wrong.

On my Mac, I have time machine. If my hard drive dies, I simply restore from my time machine and the new drive ends up EXACTLY the same as the old one without having to reinstall anything.

Time Machine ha ha ha that was waht happened to one, In TIME MACHINE I trust...all his photos collection went into TIME; he sued Apple...

Remember you said, backups near backups..how many time machines are you using? 2T for 1T backup?

 

[boylover]

norton ghost is the timeline for windows.

Time Machine ha ha ha that was waht happened to one, In TIME MACHINE I trust...all his photos collection went into TIME; he sued Apple...

Remember you said, backups near backups..how many time machines are you using? 2T for 1T backup?

 

[Leongsam]

Time Machine ha ha ha that was waht happened to one, In TIME MACHINE I trust...all his photos collection went into TIME; he sued Apple...

Remember you said, backups near backups..how many time machines are you using? 2T for 1T backup?

All complex systems can fail. It's a matter of dealing with the odds. I consider the majority of my stuff to be 95% secure. My critical stuff... eg password files, is 99.9% secure as it is stored on at least 3 computers and 2 servers.

 

[ballsathome]

norton ghost is the timeline for windows.

Or 1KeyGhost that is popular with Mainlanders.

 

[boylover]

nowadays, the lifespan of harddisks are shockingly not as robust as first generation harddisks, i have previously 2 harddisks that failed me for the past 8 years.

 

[kazuo]

Redundancy Disk Array or RAID is for backing up your backup so to speak. Unless you are working with very huge files, like video clips, and require very high speeds to run demanding tasks like video editing, no need for RAID. You dun have to swap files or disks any way. Just buy several ext drives to back up, these days so cheap, USB 3.0 some more.

 

[bugeyed]

do you guys think that it's good to setup raid on your desktop? pros and cons please.

previous experience that when my harddisk crash, all data gone and have to go through the hassle to reinstall everything plus personal pictures all gone...

do i need to get a raid card or just put in another harddisk for the above purpose? using a dell dimension btw.

thanks in advance for your advice!

Use dedicated partition for your OS and data. Use Macrium Reflect Free Edition to back up image of your OS. When OS corrupts, just restore image in few minutes time. Data - manually back up to another hard disk.

 

[boylover]

still think that it's troublesome, i will just buy a raid card and use raid 1-mirroring for both my harddisks.

Use dedicated partition for your OS and data. Use Macrium Reflect Free Edition to back up image of your OS. When OS corrupts, just restore image in few minutes time. Data - manually back up to another hard disk.