Hello,

I have 2 windows servers 2008 Std R2 and they are domain controllers. These were put together long time ago and obviously the HD configuration was thought about carefully. I have inherited this configuration. In each server (server1 and server2) there is only one HD.

To mitigate the eventuality of a disk crash, I am thinking of duplicating the HD in both of these servers. I bought Star Tech product: eSATA/USB 3.0 Hard Drive Duplicator Dock- Standalone HDD Cloner with SATA 6 Gbps for fast-speed duplication. Model number:Product ID: SDOCK2U33RE.

So the idea is if the HD in server1 crashes, I should be able to put in the duplicated copy and carry on. I understand that this is not a recommended configuration and I should really be having mirrored HD (RAID-1), but let us for the time being assume that is not possible at this time and just analyze the HD duplication method as the current possibility.

Could someone comment please?

Regards

Ravi Shankar