RAID QUESTION ?

[Franco_cov]

Guys,

I am about to do a raid 0 with 2 x 150gb Raptors for speed and performance but my question is this.

Currently using 1 raptor i either clone my disk or do an image for backup purposes using acronis image software, but if I setup a raid 0 with 2 disks how would i go about backing it up?

So for example i now have a 300gb disk (2x150gb raid 0) do i just do an image as if it was a standard 300gb hard drive or can i also simply clone the newly raid 300gb to a normal 300gb sata hard drive?

As I really want to go to raid for performance but also make sure i can backup the disk as well and have not the room or capacity to use raid 5 and dont want to use raid 1 as there is no performance gain.

 

[Franco_cov]

yes i do have a backup on a seperate disk as i cloned my current 150gb disk to a another 300gb disk the only difference is that the partitions were resized as the other disk had more space. But in the past thats not a problem as when i clone the 300gb disk back to my 150gb it simply adjusts the partitions back again.

So your saying that if i have 2 disks in raid the os sees it as 1 disk therefore i just clone it to another disk as long as its big enough? and when i come to restore from it again do i simply restore from my image to 2x disks or do i have to re-setup the raid then do the restore ?