RAID support in Acronis Personal products

RAID is a technology to combine multiple disks into a single logical unit when data is divided or replicated among multiple physical drives and this array is accessed by the operating system as one single drive. RAIDs are used for data redundancy and performance improvement. There are hardware RAIDs (data distribution is managed by a device called a RAID controller) and software RAIDs (data distribution is managed by the means of the operating system, software RAIDs created by Windows native means are called dynamic disks, you can learn more about dynamic disks in this Microsoft Technet article).

How to check if your machine has a hardware or a software RAID

If you have a hardware RAID, the hardware RAID controller will be listed in the Device Management (Start -> Run -> devmgmt.msc), e.g.:

If you have a software RAID, a disk or multiple disks will be marked as dynamic in the Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc), e.g.:

You can find examples for all types of dynamic disks in this Microsoft Technet article.

 

The following types of RAIDs are supported by Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and Acronis True Image 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021:

Hardware RAIDs

RAID 0

RAID 1

RAID 5

RAID 0+1

RAID 1+0

Software RAIDs

Simple

Spanned

Striped

Mirrored

RAID 5

The following Windows editions can create software Mirrored RAID:

• Windows 7 Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate
• Windows 8/8.1 Pro/Enterprise
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

More information

You can restore a backup of one RAID to a RAID of different type in the same manner as you would with a basic disk.

As to specific RAID controllers - when running the product in Windows, the product will support them if Windows itself does. From Acronis Bootable Media most of the RAID controllers are supported.