SSD main drives and have HDD as backup storage?

[chrjwells]

I want to know if it's possible to have my computer run on ssd's and save files on them but in the background it will save copies or a backup on hdd without slowing down the speed of the ssd's, so if the ssd would fail, I would have the files saved on the hard drives. I was thinking a raid but that would slow the speed of the ssd so I was so wondering if there was a way to have the ssd (500gb each) in raid 0 and have backups on a single (1tb) Hard drive without slowing down the ssd.

 

[USAFRet]

1. RAID 0 - Put that out of your mind. Especially with SSD's.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

2. Yes, you can backup things to the HDD no problem. Multiple methods.
The physical drive dying is the least common form of data loss. Accidental deletion, virus, malware, etc...all more common.

I use Macrium Reflect to create images of all my drives off to another drive. In my case, a NAS box.
But that could just as easily be an external HDD.
Read more here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3383768/backup-situation-home.html

 

[nobspls]

You can NOT have a file written to both the SSD and HDD and expect it to be written in the same amount of time. Given that self evident truth, how is anyone supposed to have system that saves copies of the file to SSD and HDD without slowing down the system. Sure it won't slow down the SSD, but you would still have to wait for the HDD.

But a bigger problem how is any of this going to defend against malware, ransomware? If the files are automatically copied and kept in sync, what is stopping both copie from getting infested? The only safe backup is the offline backup. But doing that will impose a time penalty, as in downtime to backup the SSD to HDD, so although the SSD is slowed down, you have to slow down to do this backup.