RAID 101 - Unlocking the Power of Redundant Hard Drives

[@juansalinas573]

Really good video, liked the visual representations. Very easy to understand too.

[@daddyyrich]

Hey fam, really diggin the content! 10/10!

[@BuzzJones]

Would you know if I use a RAID 1 setup will that Mirrored copy actually be a Backup ? I want to buy larger Hard Drive space so I can at least have the Raid 1 as one of my backups on. top of the cloud ?

[@johng6417]

Awesome for anyone struggling to understand RAID. I'm studying to take the CompTIA A+ 220 1101/1102 and this helps tremendously.

[@SofaKingA]

Perfect explanation. I honestly think I am going to try Raid 0 for my next build and just save my important data to the cloud. I've never had a drive fail yet in any build or laptop so worth the risk for gaming and benchmarking. My question is if one drive fails in Raid 0, I assume you would you have to reformat all the drives due to incomplete data?

[@MaxsTech]

That’s a smart idea. Just cloud backup all the important stuff. Tbh I actually don’t know, I’ve never had a drive fail either but I would assume yes you would just need to reformat the drive that survived because it would have basically half its data missing.

[@MaxsTech]

It likely would not even boot up into windows

[@SofaKingA]

@@MaxsTech Oh, that would be a hassle actually. Thanks for the reply!

[@johng6417]

If I wanted to set up Raid on my home PC. How likely is it that one would experience an event where data was lost. Say I only had 2 hardrives and was running raid 0... Is it common to have an event happen where the data is lost?

[@MaxsTech]

Personally I’ve never had a hard drive fail. I guess it really depends what you’re using it for/ how often. Also depends how reliable the drives you have are. I use my computer pretty much everyday though. If your data is backed up or not super important you could probably get away with it, just know the risk.