It's all relative. Is it worth ~$200 of extra hardware and the time it takes you to set this up, if it saves you some time when one of the drives goes bad. Try to factor how much time it will take you to rebuild/restore from backup if a single drive dies.
YMMV Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect II, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com -----Original Message----- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 11:38 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Advice: RAID-1 with SSD for home use? 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 ...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.
