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Hey everyone,

 

I built my mom a computer for christmas. I threw a 512gb SSD into the mix. 

Yesterday, me and my mom cleaned out our work space. I found an old Buffalo backup. I tore it apart, and I found two seagate barracuda 7200.10 500gb drives attached to what I think is a raid controller/sata to usb card. The drives use standard SATA power/data connections. Would these be safe to use in a computer?

 

On to my second question: If I can use these hard drives in a computer, I would like to set one of them up in her computer. I want it to occasionally backup her entire SSD onto the barracuda. Is that possible?

 

I can provide pictures of everything if needed. Thanks in advance!

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Yeah. I've seen people tear apart external drives to use the internal drives inside. It's normal.

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yes you can use these in a computer. you will probably not be able to get any data off of them depending on how the RAID worked on that controller, but if formatted the two drives are just drives, and will work as such

in fact if you formatted them and RAID them inside your computer, you'd get some solid performance either with Raid 1 (double read speed and redundancy) or with RAID 0 (double R/W speed, double capacity, no redundancy) as they are matched hard drives.

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Yeah. I've seen people tear apart external drives to use the internal drives inside. It's normal.

 

yes you can use these in a computer. you will probably not be able to get any data off of them depending on how the RAID worked on that controller, but if formatted the two drives are just drives, and will work as such
in fact if you formatted them and RAID them inside your computer, you'd get some solid performance either with Raid 1 (double read speed and redundancy) or with RAID 0 (double R/W speed, double capacity, no redundancy) as they are matched hard drives.

 

Awesome! 

 

Is it possible to set periodic backups of the SSD onto the hard disk?

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Awesome! 

 

Is it possible to set periodic backups of the SSD onto the hard disk?

Yes, there are third party utilities like amiami backuper or windows has one built in.

I use amiami backuper.

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Yes, there are third party utilities like amiami backuper or windows has one built in.

I use amiami backuper.

One last question: I want to use the second 500gb drive and a 640gb drive that I found when tearing apart some crappy HP laptop. Does RAID work in such a way that I can combine those two drives and then periodically back up my 1TB WD black and 120gb samsung 850 pro?

Edit: that was confusing so here's a diagram:

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One last question: I want to use the second 500gb drive and a 640gb drive that I found when tearing apart some crappy HP laptop. Does RAID work in such a way that I can combine those two drives and then periodically back up my 1TB WD black and 120gb samsung 850 pro?

You can get up to 1tb of storage in a real raid 0 or get 1140 gb if you do a spanned volume in windows. 

It should be enough space but if one of the hdd backup drives die then you lose all of the data. 

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You can get up to 1tb of storage in a real raid 0 or get 1140 gb if you do a spanned volume in windows. 

It should be enough space but if one of the hdd backup drives die then you lose all of the data. 

Thanks so much!

I have no clue how to set up a raid 0 thing. Can you direct me to a guide?

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Thanks so much!

I have no clue how to set up a raid 0 thing. Can you direct me to a guide?

  1. Open the start menu
  2. type "create and format hard disk partitions"
  3. open"create and format hard disk partitions"
  4. Right click on the first disk you want to use
  5. click extend vloume
  6. in the windows that pops up select the second disk you want to use
  7. finish the wizard and done.
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  1. Open the start menu
  2. type "create and format hard disk partitions"
  3. open"create and format hard disk partitions"
  4. Right click on the first disk you want to use
  5. click extend vloume
  6. in the windows that pops up select the second disk you want to use
  7. finish the wizard and done.

 

That's really easy, I thought I had to go into the BIOS or something. Thanks so much for your help!

 

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That's really easy, I thought I had to go into the BIOS or something. Thanks so much for your help!

 

No problem.  Please pm me with any more questions.

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