Backing up an SSD to HDD Questions

Hi guys,

I bought a 500GB Crucial SSD and I would like to use that as my storage drive, replacing the 500GB HDD I currently use (A 240GB HyperX 3K is my primary boot/game drive). For security sake I would like to have my HDD back up my SSD so any time I read something in storage it reads from the SSD. I believe putting an SSD and HDD in RAID1 would bottleneck the SSD to HDD speeds so that wouldn't make sense. What are some other options to have all my SSD data backup to the HDD automatically with minimal effect on performance?

Thanks!

I'm assuming this is a desktop and that you'll have both drives in the same machine. You're right in that RAID is not what you want for this. The purpose of RAID is to combine several physical disks into one volume.

What you want is some software that will keep the HDD synchronized with the SSD. I believe Windows has this built in if you simple right click on the drive you want to backup. I'm on Linux so I can unfortunately not confirm this. Otherwise you could use some third party software like Crashplan to manage the backups.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/four-ways-to-automatically-backup-your-hard-drive.html

Should work on 7/8/8.1.