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My setup is quite classic nowadays : 1 SSD for system/apps and 2 HDDs for data setup in a fake RAID1 array.
I also have a backup scheduled every week for the data drive in case it fails because I don't trust RAID1 for that purpose, and that's not the goal of RAID1 anyway ...
My RAID1 is only there in case of a drive hardware faillure, so I don't loose the changes since the last backup.
Now I'm not very happy with my fake raid. It slows down boot time a lot, apparently it removes the TRIM support for my SSD and I've been said it's not reliable.
Therefore, what I was thinking is to do a software raid 1 using Windows 7 dynamic volumes.
Now, to do that, I have to upgrade to win 7 professional (I have "home" now) so I'm wondering if it's worth it.
Does anyone have exerience with dynamic volumes ?
- Do they really work ?
- If one drive fails, will I be able to update my backup, replace the drive and continue as if nothing had happened ?
- Do they cause headaches when doing hdd maintenance ? (defrag for instance ?)
- Are they seen as regular drives by other tools ? (like recuva, defraggler, and so on ... ?)
Best regards
Dinaiz
Posted 2012-08-06T16:31:28.613
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Well I finally did it and everything seems to be ok. I don't know about faillure recovery, but the rest works perfectly. – Dinaiz – 2012-08-09T01:46:42.523