Using Norton Ghost 9 To Clone My C:\ Drive

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Originally Posted by ddouglass

Jim if you are using SATA drives (small cable instead of wide ribbon cable), then you have Raid capability already. You would need two drives identical in size to do this. What happens is when anything changes on one disk the other is automatically updated. This is called mirroring (I forget what raid level it is but can find out if you want to try it). If drive 0 fails drive 1 takes over and automatically becomes the working drive. You get a warning message that the drive has failed, but the computer keeps on working.

I'm jumping in the middle here, but our experience with RAIDs several years back when we shipped these for our "Pro" workstation was when one drive went bad, the RAID controller over-wrote the good drive with the bad data, making both drives have the same faulty data.

This was RAID 1 I believe. It would take 3 drive RAID to overcome this. A backup is the safest way... IMHO.