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Mirroring vs Imaging a Hard Disk Drive

Mirroring vs Imaging a Hard Disk Drive

A customer recently asked me if they should use the spare HDD (Hard Disk Drive) in their computer to create an image of their C drive periodically, or should they mirror the C drive partition. Note that the OS (Operating System) Boot and System files must be on the same partition! Mirroring the HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is also known as RAID 1. “RAID” stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Independent) Disks. This is a way to provide redundancy of your…

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