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I have recently bought a 4TB hard drive for my backup. I already have a 3TB and a 2TB drive and was wondering it it would be sensible to raid 0 the 3TB and 2TB drives and then do a daily windows backup. would this be a safe option or is there a better way to go about this?

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You can't just RAID 2 different volume sizes, you will lose 1TB with it, also, I never recommend running RAID 0 on storage drives.

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I have recently bought a 4TB hard drive for my backup. I already have a 3TB and a 2TB drive and was wondering it it would be sensible to raid 0 the 3TB and 2TB drives and then do a daily windows backup. would this be a safe option or is there a better way to go about this?

As ghetto as that is, I like it. I would just go with that setup.

 

You can't just RAID 2 different volume sizes, you will lose 1TB with it, also, I never recommend running RAID 0 on storage drives.

I think that's his point. He has a 4TB drive to backup to. He has a 3TB & 2TB drive in his machine. If he RAID 0'd those two drives, it's total capacity would be 4TB. It works out. Yeah he sacrifices the 1TB, but I think he realizes that.

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As ghetto as that is, I like it. I would just go with that setup.

 

I think that's his point. He has a 4TB drive to backup to. He has a 3TB & 2TB drive in his machine. If he RAID 0'd those two drives, it's total capacity would be 4TB. It works out. Yeah he sacrifices the 1TB, but I think he realizes that.

 

 

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Yes it would be 4tb

 

He could put those in raid 0 and just back up the whole lot to his external drive

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No it would be 2TB unfortunately

I don't see much reason to do it unless he needs super fast storage, he could raid 1 them, or put all 3 drives in a raid array but seems pointless

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... RAID 0. As in, it is like JBOD, but with the performance increase. I'm pretty sure the total volume would be 4TB. It would ignore the extra 1TB of the 3TB drive, so from the RAID 0 array, it would look like two 2TB drives. So 4TB total space on the RAID 0.

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You are thinking of RAID 1.

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... RAID 0. As in, it is like JBOD, but with the performance increase. I'm pretty sure the total volume would be 4TB.

 

Sorry yes you are right I will edit my post above

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Yes that makes sense, I didn't realize I'd loose the 1TB but its still more storage than I would have otherwise but slightly faster. the reason i don't want to raid them all is that i want some form of backup drive ( the reason for buying the 4TB drive.) I'm assuming windows backup is as good as any other software for this? 

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Yes that makes sense, I didn't realize I'd loose the 1TB but its still more storage than I would have otherwise but slightly faster. the reason i don't want to raid them all is that i want some form of backup drive ( the reason for buying the 4TB drive.) I'm assuming windows backup is as good as any other software for this? 

Eh... I wouldn't say so. Personally, I use AOMEI Backupper (it's free) with scheduled Incremental backups with Compression on.

I don't know. I just don't like Windows built-in utilities. Defragmenting sucks. Compression has limitations. So I can only guess the backup utility will have some issue or annoyance with it as well. 

I would wait for others input though and research around yourself (Google "Is Windows Backup good enough?" and other similar phrases for example) before deciding on something though. I just know AOMEI is free, has good features, and works (for me at least).

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