On the standard raid levels mirror is defined as raid 1 and it consists of having an exact bit to bit replica of the data in another hard drive.
Mirror two external hard drives.
One drive is storing around 1tb of data so far and i would like the second drive to mirror the other drive ghetto usb raid.
If your files take up a lot of space you will want to use a separate external drive for your mirror drive rather than partitioning your existing hard drive.
I have two 2tb usb drives connected to a computer.
Follow next part to learn how to mirror hard drive to ssd in windows 7 with two ways.
The disk can be internal hard or external hard drive and it should be of equal or larger capacity.
Before we start to mirror a hard drive in windows 10 8 7 you should prepare a destination hard drive where you can load cloned data.
It allows you to not only mirror hard drive to ssd external drive or another hard drive but also clone large hard drive to smaller drive as long as all data on the source can fit the smaller one.
Usually a mirror setup contains two hard.
Select two way mirror to store two copies of your data across the drives or select three way mirror to store three copies of your data across the drives.
When mirroring a hard drive for restoration you must select a destination drive that has the same if not greater storage capacity as your existing drive.