Raid 0 "Stripe" Compatible Imaging Tools

Hi,

I might get soon a new PC equipped with 2 x 1TB HDD in Raid 0 "Stripe" mode. It seems that IFW is Raid compatible, but I'd like to know if these other imaging tools are also Raid friendly (preferably from people who successfully used them in that configuration) :

- Active@Disk Image 4/5
- Drive Snapshot
- Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Home
- Macrium Reflect 4.2

Thanks !

 

IFW/IFD and Drive snapshot have no problems with raid 0.

With the other three you will be ok as long as you use WinPE as a recovery enviroment.(linux recovery enviroments do not play very well with intel raid)

ps. if is and intel chipset mobo you can configure it as a matrix raid 0 and 1, or better add a 3rd disk and configure them as matrix raid 0 and 5.

Panagiotis

 

I have used Macrium extensively with RAID 0, never had a problem. As mentioned though, I have had issues with Linux flavored boot cds. I have been using either BartPE or Win7RescuePE though for my restoring, of which I provided the correct drivers for my board. But Macrium itself has never had an issue providing I can get it started

Sul.

 

Thanks all. Most if not all commercial release do include this WinPE recovery CD, so I guess I should be OK.

 

Paragon's Recovery Media works fine on my Nvidia RAID 0, but Macrium's didn't. I don't use the WinPE versions.

 

I know it has been inferred, but I wanted to clarify for the OP. RAID backup is pretty easy to do. RAID restore is the true compatibility test.

 

Very true. I have had good luck restoring with Acronis products and with O&O DiskImage. I currently use O&O as it has never failed me. Some people don't like it though. Incremental backups are very slow but for me the fact that is has never failed outweighs the time spent.