raid 0 and backup

Hi
Have you an option in the bios for Raid?
If so just enable it!
Then as the rig boots, you should see it say "Ctrl + I" to enter Raid setup!

Just go in there and follow your nose and make the "Stripe Raid" choosing the 2x 500GB drives!

Then continue to install Windows.
When you are installing you should just see two drives.
Install to the raid array, then in windows 7 you can use the "Backup and Restore" to make an Image of the Raid Array! On the 1TB drive
Then if things go wrong, you just boot with the Windows disk and restore from Backup

As for auto backup! I don't think it's possible!

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No auto backup program? Come again?

Acronis *should* be able to do a full system-to-image backup either manually, or on a scheduled basis. You can create multiple images if you have the space for it.

If running Windows XP, you can do the same with NTBackup, just requires a bit of knowledge to do so.

You can also get Symantec BackupExec to do it, though that's more of a business-level program.

There are also a bunch of 3rd party programs. Any program that has a command-line option means you can make it auto-run with a Windows Task.

For Windows 7, check this article out:
http://lifehacker.com/5144757/first-...restore-center

Includes instructions on automated backup. Unfortunately I've never used it - I personally use other ways of backup & restore - so I can't tell you how easy it is or how good the performance would be.

Another suggested link:
http://www.petri.co.il/working-with-...-windows-7.htm

I tend to trust Petri.co.il with pretty much anything Windows-related...

I knew there'd be a problem.

I guess when I think of "automatic backup" I think of a RAID1 type of thing that would automatically mirror the changes done to the system drive in real time.

I think of any other thing as a "timed backup".

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lol, well, in your case, check out ViceVersa Free/Pro...

If you have two (or more) systems, and you can get a server OS on it, you can use Microsoft's DFS implementation. I do that. I real-time replicate my critical data to 4 different servers, all running RAID-1 arrays, so to lose *everything* requires a loss of 8 hard-drives.... or a single asteroid strike... .

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I've never tried that one.

My backups are done manually...a copy to my 2TB external drive and a copy to my WHS.

It's not "asteroid strike" safe and it's done manually but it gets the job done.

I'm checking out ViceVersa and it looks like a nice file sync program but it won't take the place of a bootable backup.

I'm thinking that "backup" can have a few different meanings.

There's a discussion here about the differences.

AAR, the importance of saving the data on a RAID0 array is something I can't stress enough.