HDD situation - what would be best - data and backup

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Published on 2012-12-11T17:01:10Z Indexed on 2012/12/11 17:08 UTC
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I just installed W8 on an Intel 330 180 GB SSD.

I have 3 1TB HDDs.

1 HDD will be external for backup.

2 HDDs are then available for my PC. I do not need 2 TB of storage, so I thought I'd set these up to be exact clones of one another, so that if one dies I have a backup in the computer to go along with my external. Is this a good set up? How best would this be accomplished?

I've heard people suggest RAID but I've never done RAID, have no idea what it is, and have no idea how to set it up in my BIOS.

Thanks in advance

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