Will my Windows Backup work when I go from RAID to AHCI?

Mr Davo

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Hi Everyone,

I am using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, and to protect my data I have performed a backup using the Control Panel > Backup and Restore feature (Back up your programs, system settings, and files).

My backup consist of a System Image of both the operating system itself, and my files.

Currently my computer uses a RAID0 array which consists of 2 x Samsung Solid State Drives, initial results from the array were very impressive.

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Today (a couple of weeks short of two years later) the results of the same test are still very impressive, though admittedly there are not longer any results which exceed 1 Gigabit / second!

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However despite the 'mighty' results above I am starting to have some doubts about the integrity of the array.

With regard to my backup (which resides on a separate hard drive) I am specifically wondering if I can restore the Windows Backup to a none RAID drive and expect my computer to work?

Any advice here will be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Davo
 
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Data read from a RAID is no longer "Raided"/special/striped/specially formatted once it is backup/stored elsewhere......

Yes, you should be able to restore to a single drive (or for that matter, to a conventional SATA storage drive) in the event of a failure of one of your SSDs, albeit at the cost of half your peak RAID Zero speed; BTW, 900 "MB/sec" is MegaBytes per sec, which is about what one would expect from a RAID 0 with two good SSDs.
Data read from a RAID is no longer "Raided"/special/striped/specially formatted once it is backup/stored elsewhere......

Yes, you should be able to restore to a single drive (or for that matter, to a conventional SATA storage drive) in the event of a failure of one of your SSDs, albeit at the cost of half your peak RAID Zero speed; BTW, 900 "MB/sec" is MegaBytes per sec, which is about what one would expect from a RAID 0 with two good SSDs.
 
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