I'm installing another SSD into my system for a total of 2x240GB SSD's and im going to put them in raid 0 and I was wondering if I could do a nightly backup or clone of the data on the raid to a 500GB hard drive.
You can use Macrium Reflect to do a daily/weekly full back/clone to another HDD.
I have a few RAID0's in my server and have other hard drives to do backups.
Even though yes RAID 0 is less reliable, and yes you won't see any speed difference unless you are copying big files to itself, but RAID 0 is a good way to get bigger space when you are working with what you got so long as you know the risk.
I don't recommend RAID0 as it's less reliable, plus it's probably not going to make much obvious difference.
I've tested SSD's of wildly differing performance and it seems that once I get any SSD it helps a lot, but beyond that an even better SSD is hard for me to notice.
But...
*Yes, you can do a backup. Just buy Acronis True Image and setup an Incremental or Differential backup (bit of a learning curve for auto-deletion etc). Choose the 2nd highest compression level (highest takes far too long for minimal space reduction).
CLONE?
You could but I wouldn't do it. You won't capture any changes, so it's best to use Acronis TI.
You can use Macrium Reflect to do a daily/weekly full back/clone to another HDD.
I have a few RAID0's in my server and have other hard drives to do backups.
Even though yes RAID 0 is less reliable, and yes you won't see any speed difference unless you are copying big files to itself, but RAID 0 is a good way to get bigger space when you are working with what you got so long as you know the risk.