Backing up and restoring from a Hybrid Virtual Drive
First, I am knowledgeable, but not an expert in this area. I just installed the Highpoint RocketHybrid PCI-E card in my Intel DP35DP MB. It actually works! This card connects to a SSD and a mechanical HDD, creating a bootable virtual hybrid drive. My SSD is only used as a caching drive; no data is deleted or moved away from the HDD. Windows sees this array as a single hard disk. Using a SSD for caching a HDD is also a new feature on the Intel Z68 MB.
I would like to know if I can use TI2012 to make images and restore them from this virtual drive. Since the HDD contains all the data, and is most likely to fail, I would foresee restoring to a single HDD (connected to the MB) without the SSD for simplicity. I could then reconstruct the virtual drive later after a successful recovery, if I chose to. Can TI2012 restore this virtual drive image back to a single bootable system HDD (on a MB controller)? Would I need to do anything special during restore? Would the redundant data on the SSD muck things up?
Thanks,
Sam Golden
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