Periodically I find one of my old photos or other files has become 0Kb and lost. By the time I have found this the backup is the same. So I am considering using RAID 5 or perhaps RAID 1 to protection one NTFS partition. I have no prior experience with RAID software or hardware and would like some help getting started?
I can fit up to 4 HDDs and I use the larger HDs to have bootable Linux Debian or Lubuntu Window 7 or Windows 10 say. But I want to be sure that all operating systems will work with out one corrupting data but from what I read this may be difficult? Or I just don't understand if this is possible and a reasonable strategy?
I am planning to use an old Fujitsu server as my desktop with an old sound card. I mention that because the server can handle RAID 0 or 1 I do not have setup software for it and I do not expect it to be clever enough to just handle use of part of a HDD? So I have in mind to use software RAID.
The BIOS handles simple 3 primary +1 extended partitions. Would putting the raid partition first then the window boot partition then one Linux the windows and Linux-swap as extended partitions. There for each HDD would be bootable with grub and Linux but only some would also have Windows.
I also intend to use two of the SATA cables for rescuing and copying hard disks such as for my laptop occasionally. RAID must not interfere with doing that.