mirror raid 5 on a 2 TB HDD

[Nhyrum]

I am looking to set up a raid 5 array with 4-8 SSD's and would like a mirrored backup of that system as well (almost like a RAID 51) where the single drive would be a mirror, but obviously i wouldn't have a HDD in a RAID with SSD's. What is the best software utility that will allow me to use that 2TB drive to rebuild the array? is that possible and economically plausible?

 

[drtweak]

your two options

1) Use a program like Macrium Reflect and you can either manually or set a schedual to clone your RAID to the single HDD

2) If you have a pro version of windows or better you can setup a software RAID 1 of the RAID 5 and the HDD but you would lose the performance on the SSD's though.

 

[Nhyrum]

your two options

1) Use a program like Macrium Reflect and you can either manually or set a schedual to clone your RAID to the single HDD

2) If you have a pro version of windows or better you can setup a software RAID 1 of the RAID 5 and the HDD but you would lose the performance on the SSD's though.

ive heard of easeus, how does that compare to macrium reflect? will it even do what i want? Macrium reflect sems to offer what i need

 

[drtweak]

Easus is more of a partition manager and cloner yes but macrium reflect has much for flexability on cloning drive to drive