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RAID 1 mirrors the disks: if one disk fails, I have time to replace it, and my data is safe.

I was going to use it for storage of very important data.

"*RAID is rarely recommended these days, it's very outdated technology and rarely makes sense anymore over more modern redundancy methods.*" -- now s/he tells me :D What should I have done instead? Full spec: Case FRACTAL NORTH TG GAMING CASE (WHITE) Promotional Item Get a discount code...

I'm in the process of setting up my new PC from PC Specialist. When we request RAID for a pair of disks, do we get hardware raid or software raid? I have installed Ubuntu, and `gparted` is showing `/dev/sda` *and* `/dev/sdb` .

Thank you all for your thoughts. It's good to know there's USB redundancy. I hadn't thought of Bluetooth 💡 If USB goes down is more likely because I'm messing with USB at the OS level 😀 Thank you, Paul, but this still relies upon USB. I'm thinking something more like...

Today I received my link to the 360 of my new PC :) I noticed that there is no PS/2 port on the motherboard: GIGABYTE X870 EAGLE WIFI7 (AM5, DDR5, M.2 PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7) It makes sense to me for my main route(s) of communication to be on a separate 'bus' to everything else. The screen...

Many thanks again, Nursemorph That's very interesting about the thermal paste. I have wondered why anyone would not want the apparently superior option for a mere £7. Would be good if PC Specialist made this clear. The configurator simply refers to Arctic as an 'upgrade'. Machine ordered :)

Thank you, Nursemorph, that's brilliant. Some questions if I may: 1) Why did you go for 2TB for the second SSD (vs 512GB)? 2) Was choosing 'Standard thermal paste' just an oversight? 3) The Spec Check warns about the height of the RGB RAM if I wanted to add a 240mm liquid cooler. Apart...

I need a new PC quickly. My current one (spec below) is intermittently failing after nearly ten years -- thank you, PC Specialist :) I used to build my own but that was a long time ago and I'm now out of touch. I have read...