Double RAID system?

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I'm building a new system, and I want the best disk performance, but I'm paranoid about losing data. If I could afford 4 750G SSD drives in RAID 5, I'd do that, but I can't. So, what I WANT to do is dual 256G SSD in RAID 1 (OS and temp files) and dual 2TB non-SSD in RAID 1 (all data files).

I only fine one MB that can do that! What is everyone else doing?? My alternate solution is single SSD and just do image backups to an identical external SSD, and stay with the RAID 1 2TB drives for data. Am I the only one wanting to do this sort of thing, and/or does everyone have a better solution to my paranoia that I'm missing? TIA
 
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I would use a single SSD and then back it up regularly. Stay paranoid! :)

Just for a different idea: I put an Icy Dock like THIS to get direct connection to the motherboard SATA bus for 2.5 and 3.5 inch drives, enabled hot swap in the bios for each SATA port, and use the free and better than MS HotSwap app from HERE and Ghost 15 (although there are a lot of good cloning programs) to clone the drive rather than relying on what I have found is less reliable in the Windows backup and recovery and gets me back up and running immediately.

It is also a good idea to make a system repair disc using the wizard that comes up when you type that in the Windows program start button search box. That will allow you to repair the...
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I would use a single SSD and then back it up regularly. Stay paranoid! :)

Just for a different idea: I put an Icy Dock like THIS to get direct connection to the motherboard SATA bus for 2.5 and 3.5 inch drives, enabled hot swap in the bios for each SATA port, and use the free and better than MS HotSwap app from HERE and Ghost 15 (although there are a lot of good cloning programs) to clone the drive rather than relying on what I have found is less reliable in the Windows backup and recovery and gets me back up and running immediately.

It is also a good idea to make a system repair disc using the wizard that comes up when you type that in the Windows program start button search box. That will allow you to repair the SRP when using a different boot drive, which Windows coughs on about 10-20% of the time in my experience.

The Icy Dock is also very handy to transfer files to other drives at high speed. It also avoids the unreliability of USB enclosures and is much faster than a USB dock.
 
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I like the Icy Dock idea. I've used hot swap internal devices like that in the past. According to Asus, all their new Z87 Gold series MB's support RAID from each of their SATA controllers, so I could use my double RAID setup that way. I use "Reflect" for disk imaging and I really like it. If I use your Icy Dock setup, then I would be okay with single OS SSD, and just image is periodically via the Dock, that way it saves wear and tear on the SSD and I'm inclined to do images more often since I don't have to open up the case, or use cluttered external USB or eSATA enclosures.
 
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That sounds like an excellent plan!

 
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