Adding hdd's for storage and speed

Rwthegamer · January 9, 2016

Hi,

In my pc I currently have:

1 120gb sdd for windows and programs. I rarely write to this drive mostly read.

1 1TB seagate hdd for documents, media and games. Writing to this drive happens more often as I like to edit video's.

Now the problem is that my 1TB drive is almost full (50gb left) so I would like to add some storage. My first thought was to add an aditional 1TB drive and put them in RAID 0 for extra speed. But then I rememberd that that would increase my risk of losing data. So i came up with the plan to add an 3TB drive aswell. Then I could backup the RAID array and my ssd to that to reduce the risk of losing data.

Now my question is, how would I go about doing the backup part, as I don't want it to take multiple hours everytime I want to backup my data?

And is there possibly another, better, solution that wouldn't cost me a lot more money?

Also, what 3TB drive would you recommend, I was thinking about a WD Green myself as it wouldn't be used very often and they are quite cheap.

Rob

As English is not my native language, I hope you can forgive me for any spelling mistakes that I have possibly made.

Godlygamer23 · January 9, 2016

Setting up the drives in RAID 0 would result in reformatting anyways so you would lose your data unless you have some way of backing it up.

xgn · January 9, 2016

Did you ever hit 100% disk speed on the ssd? because i use ssd on ahci and the others are independent speed is never a issue.

Rwthegamer · January 9, 2016

@Godlygamer23:

I have a NAS that has just over an TB left of free space so backing it up wouldn't be a problem. And if I install the 3TB drive aswell i could use that too to backup my current 1TB.

@xgn:
I don't think i quite get what you mean. My ssd is not relevant here as i'm not putting that one in raid. But yeah I've probably hit 100% some time. But not on a regular basis if that is what you mean.

Edited January 9, 2016 by Godlygamer23
Adding in tags.