Mirror Two External Hard Drives

Select parity to be protected from a single drive failure and have more space but remember that a parity space is noticeably slower than the other options here.

Mirror two external hard drives.

Optimally i would like to be able to always just deal with the primary drive and the secondary drive would just automatically mirror the contents of whatever is on the. One drive is storing around 1tb of data so far and i would like the second drive to mirror the other drive ghetto usb raid. The disk can be internal hard or external hard drive and it should be of equal or larger capacity. If your files take up a lot of space you will want to use a separate external drive for your mirror drive rather than partitioning your existing hard drive.

What s more data on the destination disk should be backed up in advance as the mirroring process cleans the. Select two way mirror to store two copies of your data across the drives or select three way mirror to store three copies of your data across the drives. On the standard raid levels mirror is defined as raid 1 and it consists of having an exact bit to bit replica of the data in another hard drive. I have two 2tb usb drives connected to a computer.

Follow next part to learn how to mirror hard drive to ssd in windows 7 with two ways. When mirroring a hard drive for restoration you must select a destination drive that has the same if not greater storage capacity as your existing drive.