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RAID 1

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Right now I have a 120gb SSD as my main OS/application drive and a Samsung Spinpoint 1TB HDD for storage and secondary applications.

Paranoid of losing my data, I'm thinking of adding another 1TB HDD to my existing drive and using RAID 1.

I'll be creating scheduled images of my main drive and storing them on the RAID 1 array along with other files and applications.

Then I found this article (http://buildegg.com/bewp/?p=44) on the forum and was going to follow through with that.

Is building a RAID 1 array through Windows 7 sufficient for my use or should I go through the hardware level on my mobo (Asus P8Z68-V Pro) to build it since I'm going to be reading and writing to it. Would there be any performance difference between the two?
 
RAID 1 is not a backup. Create a proper backup solution instead.
 
RAID1 is definitely not a backup, but it is the first line of defense as it essentially acts as a real-time backup system designed to keep you from looking data with a single drive failure. It does not, however, protect well against user error or PSU failures or viruses designed to kill data, etc.

Get a RAID1 array set up, and also ensure that you have an additional external hard drive (enclosure, in another PC, etc) and perform regular backups.
 
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