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2 ssd, 1 HDD raid 10?

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I have 2 identical ocz SSD's, at 240 gb apiece. I want to raid 0, but data loss is a thing. I have a thrid drive, a 500gb 7200 rpm laptop hard drive. Can you (or even should you) raid 10 between three different drives? where I raid 1 the hdd against the 2 ssd's?

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if you raid between hdds that are different sizes, even in raid 10 they will all be effectively reduced to the lowest sized hdd. same goes for speed. this might work in therory but it would be running at ~100MBs because thats probably the hdds max speed

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No. That would limit the speed to the hard drive speed. The best thing to do would be to have the raid 0 SSDs then use a backup software to backup all your data to the hard drive every night.

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10 minutes ago, FAQBytes said:

No. That would limit the speed to the hard drive speed. The best thing to do would be to have the raid 0 SSDs then use a backup software to backup all your data to the hard drive every night.

This.  RAID0 the SSD's, backup to HDD regularly.

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Do you have any suggestions for software that I can use ( hopefully free) that will mirror the raid nightly?

I am also pretty sure windows supports doing this automatically, but I'd rather have a third party software that is a little bit easier to navigate than control panel.

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12 hours ago, dkspooder said:

Do you have any suggestions for software that I can use ( hopefully free) that will mirror the raid nightly?

I am also pretty sure windows supports doing this automatically, but I'd rather have a third party software that is a little bit easier to navigate than control panel.

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