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I'm using an old pc as a storage space and I have two 2TB HDD drives. I want to use them in a way that when I place a file or a picture in hard drive 1, the same files are saved in hard drive 2 in real time. How can I do that?

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Raid mirroring of the drives (RAID 1) would accomplish this easily, there are other ways however I'm not familiar enough with them to attempt to explain how to manage it.

djsmiley2kStaysInside
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If you use Windows 2000 or up, you can create 1 mirrored partition that spans 2 or more drives, where data written to this one partition is stored on those disks simultaneously.

In order to do this, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.

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Depending on which OS version you are using, you may need to convert the disk to a Dynamic disk. If New Mirrored volume is missing or greyed out, convert, otherwise skip this step.

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Now, Right click one of the empty disks, and choose New Mirrored Volume...

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Select the other disk and press Add... then Next.

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Assign a drive letter to this new partition and press next.

In the next screen you can choose the volume name and type of the partition. Change if you want, or leave it with the default settings. Using NTFS is recommended. Then press Next, and finish.

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LPChip
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RAID does allow that, but it needs dedicated additional hardware (controllers); another option is Shadow Copy, which is a Windows feature.

Google those key words for details and conditions, there is a lit of information to know.

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