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first of all, does anyone even do this anymore? secondly, does my thought process make sense?

im thinking it would be as easy as just getting 2 large hard disks and putting them on the same sata cable. then I could load my windows off the M2 drive and keep any large files stored onto the hard drive that would be written to both discs redundantly. if one failed I could swap it out and replace it with the same hard disk type.

I don't know if raid is configured in software or if there's a physical board to handle it but I could find that out with a quick net search. just wondering if this is like a good solution to not having a hard drive fail on me again.

edit:: glad I asked! these are all great answers. i will follow up on these and let you know what i wind up doing. thank you!!

first of all, does anyone even do this anymore? secondly, does my thought process make sense? im thinking it would be as easy as just getting 2 large hard disks and putting them on the same sata cable. then I could load my windows off the M2 drive and keep any large files stored onto the hard drive that would be written to both discs redundantly. if one failed I could swap it out and replace it with the same hard disk type. I don't know if raid is configured in software or if there's a physical board to handle it but I could find that out with a quick net search. just wondering if this is like a good solution to not having a hard drive fail on me again. edit:: glad I asked! these are all great answers. i will follow up on these and let you know what i wind up doing. thank you!!

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You need separate SATA cables for each drive (it's not like the old IDE with master and slave). What you want is RAID 1 (mirroring). Motherboard-supported as someone mentioned. Also this doesn't replace proper backups, e.g. if you wipe a bunch of files, you lose them on both drives. The RAID is just to protect loss of new data since the last backup if one drive fails.