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CopperVape Hussar Clone came in today :)
I put a 2.5mm spaced Ti coil right between the posts.
The build quality is not bad but not great either! Fill hole is a bit small.
The Air flow is really nice, ample air flow for DLH. I'm really liking the Air Flow :)
It wicks like a dream! Top quality vape experience :)
The flavour is good, real good! IMO my best single coil flavour tanks are Rose V3 & Hurricane V3, this is up there with them :)
These are my first impressions, 2 Thumbs up :)
It comes with a plastic & a SS tank, Glass would have been nice!






 

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Hoping someone can tell me about setting up RAID in my computer, I have a SSD drive for the C:/windows drive and three matching 2 tig drives, going to add one more matching 2 tig. My plan is to use the SSD drive for windows then keep all my important files on the other four. I have files on a couple of the 2 tig drives now, do all the RAID drives have to be blank when setting up the RAID or will the files be distributed between all the drives once set up?

In the last year I've had three old smaller drives fail and I lost files, fortunately none of them were family pictures or videos. I have a ton of them and there are something I never want to loose, some are from 8mm movies Dad took when we were little and converted to digital. I also have many pics and video's going back when my daughter was young, would break my heart to loose them.
 

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Hoping someone can tell me about setting up RAID in my computer, I have a SSD drive for the C:/windows drive and three matching 2 tig drives, going to add one more matching 2 tig. My plan is to use the SSD drive for windows then keep all my important files on the other four. I have files on a couple of the 2 tig drives now, do all the RAID drives have to be blank when setting up the RAID or will the files be distributed between all the drives once set up?

In the last year I've had three old smaller drives fail and I lost files, fortunately none of them were family pictures or videos. I have a ton of them and there are something I never want to loose, some are from 8mm movies Dad took when we were little and converted to digital. I also have many pics and video's going back when my daughter was young, would break my heart to loose them.

You will loose anything on the drives when you set them up for RAID5, it will format the new RAID array before you can use it. Copy anything of value somewhere else before starting the RAID conversion.
 

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Willie, maybe a backup drive would work better than a RAID array. My experience with RAID was only when setting up servers and we always started with blank drives, of course. We did expand the array, blank drives, but again and it took a significant amount of time to "re-stripe" the system. All of the ones I worked with were RAID 5 and the hardware allowed hot swaps in the event of a failure. Like Mike said, when you create a RAID array the drives get formatted to RAID, at the level you select, so anything on them is history. RAID 5, if I remember correctly, is the "safest" with the data spread/duplicated across the drives so that if one or two fail simultaneously, nothing is lost. Another thing about RAID 5 is that it has a relatively high "overhead" in terms of lost drive capacity for the striping information to be tracked. We did have a power problem, years ago, and lost three out of a five disk array and had to restore from tape, DAT2. I spent the entire weekend in the server room on that one.

I've got a 2 gig and 4 gig, USB 3.0, backup drive setup at the moment. The 2 gig filled up way too fast and I don't have a lot of video on my system which could limit usefulness for you. The first backup, a "full", did take some time, but the incrementals are very fast and the data is easy to recover if needed.
 

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I have three RAID1 arrays (mirrored drives).
  • 550gb SSD - OS and Apps
  • 2Tb - Media, movies, music, etc
  • 2Tb - Nightly Full partition backups of the Server and Workstation OS drives.
I had too many Raid5 arrays fail for whatever reason, now I just do mirrored drives, and store the nightly backups on 2 different computers.
 

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I was doing mirroring on my home server, when I had a real server set up at home. Even that can fail IF both drives go at the same time. If I really wanted to be safe, I'd do tape backup and use "Tower of Hanoi" as the backup scheme, but even that has a problem with tape life. The low, relative, cost and small size of USB/portable drives makes them a more attractive option, to me anyway.
 

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I use Microsoft Synctoy to keep folders/drives synchronized, runs overnight from a scheduler task. I have a desktop computer downstairs in a very infrequently used office that essentially has backup drives for all our stuff, plus I keep my old laptop (not sure why) and a netbook I'll carry on trips sometimes all up to speed. Easy peasy.
 

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