In this scenario, since you have an external drive to back up to, I would simply use the built-in Backup and Restore to do a full system image backup. That way you have the data backed up and if there's a hard drive or other failure, you won't have to spend time reinstalling apps, redoing settings, etc.
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 ...) > > > -- Charlie Sullivan Sr. Windows Systems Administrator Boston College 197 Foster St. Room 367 Brighton, MA 02135 617-552-4318
