One project for a friend ends (the sub £400 SFF) and another begins...
About 6 or so months ago I built a friend a computer with a RAID 1 array of two 500GB Samsungs - he didn't have cash enough to buy even the cheapest boot HD after I'd talked him into a Q9300 and 4GB of DDR3 - so the OS & apps went on it along with his "live" data (he runs multiple externals for backup - but, and this is where it gets sticky, they're all full now)
The thing is, being quite the worrier (and perhaps rightly so) he wants to ensure that when his computer comes out of freight on the other side of the world (he's emigrating to Oz) that all his data won't be kaput. So, he's gone and bought a new 500GB HD and is waving it at me earlier going
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| Quote: "surely all we do is whip out one of the mirrors and throw this and rebuild it? Then I'll have at least one HD stored safe at my Dad's place" | |
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...and I'm looking at him like
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| Quote: "er, I think I'll go check up on that first" | |
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...and so, the question(s): Can this be done? How? Probably best to write an image first (he's got Acronis Director 8 or 9 I can't recall) no?
Eeek!
