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2 questions:

1.i need to under stand raid a little more and how to go about seeting it up

2.i have a hard drive that has programs files etc and i would like to back up all this information would an extrenal hardrive with 1 botton back up work for my kind of application? somethign that i could use to basically make a duplicate of my hardrive? maybe i dunno
 
Well if you think that #2 is related to #1 - it's not RAID does not back up your data. You should probably get a DVD burner and there are lots of backup applications out there such as Norton Ghost. I won't recommend any because everyone i've seen people try has sucked majorly, especially if trying to backup the whole hard drive while a windows mounted system disk.

This is an excellent read
Raid merely makes data accessed faster under certain scenarios or makes it more capable of surviving a single hard drive failure albeit having alot more risks that seem to make it 2-5 times riskier then regular hard drives.

To get raid going you need a Raid controller, either a card or an onboard controller as some are doing now a days. You need several hard drives. Raid configurations require 2-4 hard drives depending upon what you are setting up. 4 is raid 1+0 which is the optimal albeit extremely expensive and space taking. You also need to make sure you have a floppy disk or some other drive that windows will read during installation as you'll need the drivers for your raid controller when installing windows (if the system disk is going to be on raid also)
 
My suggestion for #2 is a Maxtor backup drive with Retrospect included. It works well.

For a technical understanding of raid, check out wikipedia's article on it. Then you'll have a better idea whether it fits your application (hint: no) and you can decide what you want to do with the disks.

 
Depending upon what size drive you have the external might be fine. Lets say you have a 250Gb drive in your system backing up to something USB that is equally as large. You're well protected there. If your main drive goes, you'll have to order a new one and once you get it use the software to restore from the USB. The RAID alternative will work without the USB drive, but having attached storage for backup is extra redundancy.
 
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