Setting up RAID 0 SSD Array - Sofware RAID 1 that to HDD?

[snedie]

So I'm setting up my rig with a quad SSD RAID 0 array this week, and with the obvious risk of failure I'd like some form of dedicated backup for the array.

Mirroring the volume seems the most logical way to to for efficiency, but my RAID controller as far as I am aware does not support grouping of RAID volumes (High end stuff). Can anyone suggest some software solutions that would achieve this? I don't want to just use "backup" software to image to array every day as the time required to do this would be horrendous not to mention the impact to system performance.

Any other suggestions feel free to make them

 

[TwsT]

going to have to ask.

What an earth are you doing that needs quad raid 0 on SSD's?

Could you not live on Raid 10 across the 4 drives.

Although SSD's don't have error reporting AFAIK, so they might drop out of their own accord anyway if you use them in raid 10 or 5

I used 2 ssd's in raid 0 for some time and to be honest it created more problems than it fixed

 

[ubersonic]

Software RAID 1/0 has been built into Windows for over a decade so you don't need any additional software, but wouldn't mirroring an SSD array with a HDD cause an enormous bottleneck?

BTW what is your RAID controller because a quadruple stripe array is going to be pulling some serious numbers and AFAIK most low end ones especially those built into motherboards will not give anything remotly near the theoretical figures. IMO unless you really need the space you should go RAID 10 like the above poster suggested as 10 is faster than 0 and has the great fault overhead, or if you need space try a Raid 5 array maybe?