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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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[–] • 2 pts

The easiest way is probably to use one of those 2 bay hard disk drive enclosures that do RAID 1. You buy the enclosure and put your two drives into it. Then you connect the enclosure to a USB port on your PC.

I haven’t used one of these myself. I would download the manual before I buy one and make sure it lets you seamlessly swap in a new drive in RAID 1 mode.

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And with any setup, put some data on, turn it off, remove one drive, then be sure you can read the data with just one drive operational.