I rarely hear of many people doing what I am thinking so I would like to know if there is good reason for that. I'm thinking of running a RAID 0 SSD array and doing full array backups to a mechanical drive of the same capacity. While this won't give me the ability to keep working should one drive go down I will get a speed increase that I'm looking for.
Is it possible to do the setup as described above but have the backup drive image the RAID array - or basically mirror it in a hybrid manner? This way if the SSD array goes down all I need to do is change the boot disk in the BIOS to have it boot to the backup disk?
I'm thinking that this would be awesome if it were possible and maybe the backup could be continuously updated whenever the computer had idle time.
So, what are your thoughts on this idea as a whole and is it possible to "mirror" the raid array or image it nightly to have it available as a bootable disk should one SSD crash?
Is it possible to do the setup as described above but have the backup drive image the RAID array - or basically mirror it in a hybrid manner? This way if the SSD array goes down all I need to do is change the boot disk in the BIOS to have it boot to the backup disk?
I'm thinking that this would be awesome if it were possible and maybe the backup could be continuously updated whenever the computer had idle time.
So, what are your thoughts on this idea as a whole and is it possible to "mirror" the raid array or image it nightly to have it available as a bootable disk should one SSD crash?