Backing up HDD w/ SSD caching

[Shazdough]

I have a pc setup with a 1tb raid0 HDD w/ a 64gb ssd caching it and I want to have a backup plan started for when one/both of the drives fail. What's a good program for this? What do I need to know?

Thank you!

 

[USAFRet]

I have a pc setup with a 1tb raid0 HDD w/ a 64gb ssd caching it and I want to have a backup plan started for when one/both of the drives fail. What's a good program for this? What do I need to know?

Thank you!

"a 1tb raid0 HDD"...doesn't make a lot of sense.
A RAID 0 requires 2 or more drives.

But you would just backup the 1TB. The small SSD cache does not get backed up.

 

[Shazdough]

Sorry I meant that they were both in raid 0. So I can just use a program like acronis true image to mirror the drive and if it fails, I just swap it out?

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry I meant that they were both in raid 0. So I can just use a program like acronis true image to mirror the drive and if it fails, I just swap it out?

A 1TB HDD and a 64GB SSD in an actual RAID 0?
No....I don't believe you actually have this.
This would result in a quite slow 128GB volume.

And with a real RAID 0...if one drive dies, all is lost across both drives. You can't just slip in a new drive and move on.

 

[Shazdough]

Sorry I meant that they were both in raid 0. So I can just use a program like acronis true image to mirror the drive and if it fails, I just swap it out?

A 1TB HDD and a 64GB SSD in an actual RAID 0?
No....I don't believe you actually have this.
This would result in a quite slow 128GB volume.

And with a real RAID 0...if one drive dies, all is lost across both drives. You can't just slip in a new drive and move on.

This is what it shows when I boot up: https://ibb.co/eeGTXa

Looks like my primary hard drive is Raid0 and the SSD as the cache drive is Raid1 if I'm reading it correctly.

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry I meant that they were both in raid 0. So I can just use a program like acronis true image to mirror the drive and if it fails, I just swap it out?

A 1TB HDD and a 64GB SSD in an actual RAID 0?
No....I don't believe you actually have this.
This would result in a quite slow 128GB volume.

And with a real RAID 0...if one drive dies, all is lost across both drives. You can't just slip in a new drive and move on.

This is what it shows when I boot up: https://ibb.co/eeGTXa

Looks like my primary hard drive is Raid0 and the SSD as the cache drive is Raid1 if I'm reading it correctly.

OK...the 64GB drive is simply a cache drive.
It is reported as a "RAID0" because it works in conjunction with the HDD.

The HDD is simply a 1TB drive.


For backups, you just backup the HDD.

 

[Shazdough]

Sorry I meant that they were both in raid 0. So I can just use a program like acronis true image to mirror the drive and if it fails, I just swap it out?

A 1TB HDD and a 64GB SSD in an actual RAID 0?
No....I don't believe you actually have this.
This would result in a quite slow 128GB volume.

And with a real RAID 0...if one drive dies, all is lost across both drives. You can't just slip in a new drive and move on.

This is what it shows when I boot up: https://ibb.co/eeGTXa

Looks like my primary hard drive is Raid0 and the SSD as the cache drive is Raid1 if I'm reading it correctly.

OK...the 64GB drive is simply a cache drive.
It is reported as a "RAID0" because it works in conjunction with the HDD.

The HDD is simply a 1TB drive.


For backups, you just backup the HDD.

So it's not actually a Raid setup and I can simply backup and replace in the event of a failure?

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry I meant that they were both in raid 0. So I can just use a program like acronis true image to mirror the drive and if it fails, I just swap it out?

A 1TB HDD and a 64GB SSD in an actual RAID 0?
No....I don't believe you actually have this.
This would result in a quite slow 128GB volume.

And with a real RAID 0...if one drive dies, all is lost across both drives. You can't just slip in a new drive and move on.

This is what it shows when I boot up: https://ibb.co/eeGTXa

Looks like my primary hard drive is Raid0 and the SSD as the cache drive is Raid1 if I'm reading it correctly.

OK...the 64GB drive is simply a cache drive.
It is reported as a "RAID0" because it works in conjunction with the HDD.

The HDD is simply a 1TB drive.


For backups, you just backup the HDD.

So it's not actually a Raid setup and I can simply backup and replace in the event of a failure?

Yes.