Mirroring/raiding HDD and SSD

[yRaz]

So I'm not really sure how to ask this question so I'll explain what I'm trying to do. I'm looking at buying an 8TB SSD for fast storage and want everything I put on it to be copied EXACTLY to 8TB Harddrive in the background as a sort of raid but don't want the SSD to be slowed down buy the HDD. If I copy something to it I want it put on in the background and I delete something from it I also want it deleted from the HDD. I was googling "mirroring" a drive, but everything that pops up is about mirroring a bootdrive to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall windows your OS. It's really difficult for me to find information on how this stuff works so I figured I'd just ask here, please don't make fun of me.

I'm also considering turning an old ryzen 1700 PC into a NAS so putting 2 8TB HDD's in raid in that machine is an option. Although, again, if I'm going to have a NAS I'd like to be able to copy things to and from that quickly. Something like throw a 1TB NVMe drive in there and have 2 8TB drives in raid, so, same problem. However, the problem with that is I only have 1gig networking so I'd still be limited to standard HDD speeds. I am considering upgrading to 10gig networking in the future but that's an expensive project that I'm not really interested in doing right now.

I do work with large amounts of data often enough that this would save me a good bit of time

 

[Endymio]

Under Linux, you can get the "lazy write" mirroring you describe with LVM. With Windows, software mirroring or a Windows storage space is going to be slower on writes (though a bit faster on reads). But any generic backup software will do essentially what you want -- it will run in the background, copying modified files to the backup volume.

 

[yRaz]

Under Linux, you can get the "lazy write" mirroring you describe with LVM. With Windows, software mirroring or a Windows storage space is going to be slower on writes (though a bit faster on reads). But any generic backup software will do essentially what you want -- it will run in the background, copying modified files to the backup volume.

after looking at a few programs I feel like an ***** for not wording it like that. I just formatted a new drive, saw "mirroring" and guess I got stuck on wording it like that. Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

[SNGX1275]

FreeFileSync will do it - I believe I used it a LONG time ago. Here is some info on it - Windows 10: How to Mirror/Sync Folders Automatically - Technipages