What to do with 2 500GB hard drives
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What to do with 2 500GB hard drives
Pretty much what the title says. I had one drive, which died on me during the school year. I bought a new one in a panic, only to realize later on that the old one was still under warranty. I shipped it out today, so hopefully in a few weeks I'll have two 500 gigs. So... what should I do with them? I'm using about half of a drive right now, and while I'm sure at some point I'll eventually have more than 500 gigs of stuff, the death of the last drive has me leaning towards a dedicated backup drive. This is an area I know very little about, however (besides doing it all manually every so often). I'd prefer something automated.
Currently I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty... if anyone has any pointers on recommended programs or steps I could take to educate myself (hopefully not anything overwhelmingly technical, though I'll try my best with whatever you guys can give me), I'd be very grateful. I also hear about RAID a lot, but don't really know anything about it.
That said, here's the old drive and the new drive.
Currently I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty... if anyone has any pointers on recommended programs or steps I could take to educate myself (hopefully not anything overwhelmingly technical, though I'll try my best with whatever you guys can give me), I'd be very grateful. I also hear about RAID a lot, but don't really know anything about it.
That said, here's the old drive and the new drive.
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I use 2 500GB drives in raid mirror, have my operating systems and storage drive on it, so when 1 fails it can be replaced with no data loss.
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I think you can do it with ubuntu via software, my motherboard supports raid via hardware, though I've read software raid and cheap motherboard raid get about the same performance. I had them striped, and it was nice and fast, but one failed, and had to redo multiboot windows and shit. I wouldn't recommend putting your os on a stripe, maybe extra data drives on stripe if you do lots of video editing and large file stuff.
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