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kjvnasa
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Kk homies for linus lands. Im in the market of setting up my work system and i am having trouble figuring out what should i do as far as storage goes. I have a 250gb samsung 840 evo that i could use but the thing is i would like to be able to have a backup of that drive all the time. Raid wouold be the solutiin but i cant find a place where i can buy it for a reasnable price? What do you recomend. It will be used for system drive i have a 200 dollar budget.

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CPU: i7 4790k @4.5ghz (1.165v) COOLER: Hyper 212 Evo  MOBO: Asus Maximus VI EXTREME   RAM: 8GB Kingston FURY @1866 Mhz   GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX 970 DUAL SLI   PSU: Corsair HX750   CASE: NZXT Phantom 830 HDD: WD Black 3TB SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 256Gb

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Raid is not a backup, it's redundancy. 

CPU I7 - 4720HQ • RAM 2 x 8GB • GPU Nvidia GTX 850M Storage 250GB 850 EVO - 1TB Seagate Hybrid
Keyboard CM Storm QuickFire Rapid-I (MX brown) & Pok3r (MX clear) • Mouse Logitech G502 • Sound Audio-Technica ATH-M50X • OS Windows 10 Pro - Linux Arch • Storage Asustor AS7004T

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Raid is not a backup, it's redundancy.

well i need the computer to be as reliable as possable so i see this as the best solution. Do you have any other idea.

My rig:
CPU: i7 4790k @4.5ghz (1.165v) COOLER: Hyper 212 Evo  MOBO: Asus Maximus VI EXTREME   RAM: 8GB Kingston FURY @1866 Mhz   GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX 970 DUAL SLI   PSU: Corsair HX750   CASE: NZXT Phantom 830 HDD: WD Black 3TB SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 256Gb

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well i need the computer to be as reliable as possable so i see this as the best solution. Do you have any other idea.

The reason I say RAID should't be used for backups is if you for example accidentally delete something important it'll be gone on your mirrored drive as well. A good alternative for your budget could be getting another 840 to put in a RAID 1 and get another mechanical drive that for example makes backups every other night. This way you'll have redundancy and a back up. When one SSD fails you can still continue to work and if you accidentally deleted something you still have a back up of it. 

CPU I7 - 4720HQ • RAM 2 x 8GB • GPU Nvidia GTX 850M Storage 250GB 850 EVO - 1TB Seagate Hybrid
Keyboard CM Storm QuickFire Rapid-I (MX brown) & Pok3r (MX clear) • Mouse Logitech G502 • Sound Audio-Technica ATH-M50X • OS Windows 10 Pro - Linux Arch • Storage Asustor AS7004T

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