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copy-paste or clone?

xwrench3
By xwrench3
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i bought a second hard drive a while back, and finally got around to installing it. my plan is to copy my existing hard drives (yes, drives, as in plural), so in the even of failure, i can have an exact copy of the drive that failed. can i just copy / paste, or do i need to clone each drive?i have made one copy of a drive using cloning software, but i have no idea if it will work or not, as the drive i cloned has never failed. so i am a little uncertain about it. 

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files? copy paste

OS? clone.

 

 raid 1 them if possible 

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If it's just data you can just copy paste it.

There might be issues trying to do everything at once though.

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