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Question from Michael: I have a five year old Acer laptop that runs a bit on the warm side. It always has, ever since I first took it out of the box.
I guess it’s just a “hot” computer because the fan runs as it should and there are no air obstructions that I can find. But other than running a bit warmer than it should, it works great. [Read more…]
Question from Bill: I recently read an article about using hard drives or SSDs in a RAID configuration.
The article said RAID 1 copies all data to every drive in the array at the same time, essentially creating a clone of the primary drive in real time.
In the comments on the article someone suggested that using two drives in RAID 1 will automatically create a backup, eliminating the need to back up the hard drive in the usual way.
That made sense to me but then someone else commented and said that’s a really bad idea. But he didn’t explain why.
What’s your opinion on using RAID 1 to create automatic backups? Is it a good idea or not?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]