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Hey gang,
I'm a creative professional and music producer. My current setup on Windows 8.1 involves a 240GB SSD for C:, and then I have a WD Black Caviar 2TB which is split in two equal partitions (1TB for Design Arts, 1TB for Music Studio), and finally a small 250GB drive which I use as Adobe scratch disk.
The issue I'm about to face is that my 2TB drive now has less than 60GB free so I'm going to soon run out of space. Currently I mirror this 2TB drive to an external 2TB WD Passport so that I always have a backup and a portable version of the projects that I can take with me. This has worked beautifully up to now.
So my first instinct is to replace my current 2TB with a WD Black 4TB (or leave the 2TB there in addition to the new 4TB). This way, I should be good for a while... also seems like this is probably the top performing 7200 RPM drive for creative workstations at the moment.
However, I know there is such a thing as RAID. Particularly, I think RAID-1. Would it be better for me to scrap my configuration of 1 drive for C:, 1 drive for projects and recording, 1, drive for Adobe scratch... and instead setup a RAID for projects and recording? If so, what does it imply? I wasn't looking to spend much more than the cost of the 4TB.. so if I would have to buy 2 of those, its probably off the table. Also, if RAID-1 only provides a solution in case of HD failure, well, I already own external drives that I can use for backups.
Any advice/suggestions would be immensely appreciated...
I'm a creative professional and music producer. My current setup on Windows 8.1 involves a 240GB SSD for C:, and then I have a WD Black Caviar 2TB which is split in two equal partitions (1TB for Design Arts, 1TB for Music Studio), and finally a small 250GB drive which I use as Adobe scratch disk.
The issue I'm about to face is that my 2TB drive now has less than 60GB free so I'm going to soon run out of space. Currently I mirror this 2TB drive to an external 2TB WD Passport so that I always have a backup and a portable version of the projects that I can take with me. This has worked beautifully up to now.
So my first instinct is to replace my current 2TB with a WD Black 4TB (or leave the 2TB there in addition to the new 4TB). This way, I should be good for a while... also seems like this is probably the top performing 7200 RPM drive for creative workstations at the moment.
However, I know there is such a thing as RAID. Particularly, I think RAID-1. Would it be better for me to scrap my configuration of 1 drive for C:, 1 drive for projects and recording, 1, drive for Adobe scratch... and instead setup a RAID for projects and recording? If so, what does it imply? I wasn't looking to spend much more than the cost of the 4TB.. so if I would have to buy 2 of those, its probably off the table. Also, if RAID-1 only provides a solution in case of HD failure, well, I already own external drives that I can use for backups.
Any advice/suggestions would be immensely appreciated...
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- Win 8 64-bit