oh ok thanks. so you are saying i would need a separate drive that is only mean to hold data as a secure drive to store information on and that is its only purpose.

i am getting this 4tb drive to use to copy my data from my main 1 tb drive onto it. but also to use other parts as extra storage. i figure as long as both drives have the same data that i want to keep, then the chances of both failing together are not very high. so at least 1 of them will have enough data for me to recover if one fails. at most ill use 1 tb out of 4 tb on one drive for copying my main drive to it. the rest 3 tb will be for whatever i need.

and that makes sense that failure rate is by the model.

u gotta learn to tldr mate

One of the last sections in your motherboard manual....will show you exactly how to set up your RAID array.

Raid 1 is inefficient and you lose half the storage
noone should ever use it
you keep over half of the combined storage of all drives with raid 6 + get more redundancy and faster reads

This post was edited by DCSS on Jun 22 2017 01:42pm

What you left out is the failure rate of raid 6 when trying to recompile after failure do to teh large array.
Also the addition costs for more drives.

Raid 1 is the best raid imo aside from 10.
No one should be using larger raid arrays with 3-4tb drives unless they want a guaranteed failure when recompiling.

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Jun 22 2017 04:44pm

i am not doing RAID. i guess thats where u only copy things to both hdd. but i just want to move some files over, around 400gb of data to the 4tb, so theres a copy of the important stuff. then i just want to use the hdd as a normal storage drive.

So, i am assuming what i want is just RAID 0.
I have my main drive that is 1tb. and then the second hdd that is 4tb. I just want to use both and not mirror them, but i do want to copy some files over to the 4tb hdd.

I heard that in RAID 0, if 1 hdd fails, then you loose data from all hdds? or do u only loose data from the hdd that failed? the 2nd answer makes more sense.

Like talking to a brick wall.

you want the 850 evo samsung solid ssd
i recommend the samsung 850 evo ssd for maximal transfer rights and the lowest latency performance storage solution

ok maybe not any RAID. RAID i guess copies everything in real time. i dont really need it to be constantly copying all data over.

I think what i want is just something to backup the data when i choose to make it be a backup and copy all data over.
What program would help me do this backup? Basically i just want a copy of the data on my hdd in case the hdd fails. i think ill just buy another hdd that is also just a 1tb, so its the exact same size.....

This post was edited by noob_whacker on Jul 5 2017 03:07am