My desktop at home has mirrored drives, but none of my laptops do, and none of the systems for family members do.
My daughter has had two drive failures on different systems over the past 5 or so years -- both on laptops -- but as her data is stored on our SAN, there was no real data loss to speak of. I wouldn't bother with mirrored SSD. Oh, and my wife keeps hundreds[1] of browser windows open as well. Regards, *ASB* [1] aggregated across all open browsers. 50+ is considered light browsing for her. On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Michael Leone <oozerd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a non-business question. My GF needs a new PC; her current Dell > is like 8 years old, and is really slow with her Google Chrome and 30+ > tabs open (yes, I've told her to try not keeping so many tabs open; > no, she won't change her behavior ...) > > Anyways, I'm looking at a HP Pavillion 570-p30 (that's an I7-7700 CPU, > 16G RAM, 256G SSD). Her current machine (Dell Studio XPS 8000) does > have mirrored SATA boot drives (I ordered it that way). I did it for > safety, not backup (we do backups to an external HD via scheduled task > and SyncToy). > > It doesn't appear that I can do that with this HP machine, doesn't > looks like there's enough SSD connectors, although I haven't been able > to confirm that. > > My question - do I even really need to mirror the boot drive? Do you > folks do mirrored drives at home? Or am I just being overly cautious? > (I don't have one on my own desktop, just a single SSD boot drive. I > do have mirrored data storage drives, for photos, etc. Again for > safety). > > (at work, it would never occur to me to spec out a server that didn't > have mirrored boot dives. But this isn't a server ...) > > >
