Hi Last night, I started a Windows Backup with the following parameters: - Destination: RAID 0 array called RAID_Backup (1.8TB available) (an external RAID array connected to my PC via eSATA) - What to backup: Let Windows choose The System Image was included. My system has a 60GB SSD (27.5GB used) called C: and a 1.8TB RAID 0 array called RAID_1 (480GB used). C: is the boot drive and has Windows 7 Ultimate and other applications installed. RAID_1 also has applications installed and contains my User profiles i.e. Users\<username>\My Documents etc. Whe the backup runs, RAID_Backup activity is almost constant, which I would expect given that it is the backup target. What I didn't expect is that C: has also been constantly active since the backup started 21h30m ago!. Windows Backup is saying that it is creating a system image of RAID_1. Monitoring Disk Activity in Resource Monitor, I noted that in the early hours of the backup, there was masses of write activity to C:\System Volume Information\Windows Backup\Staging\<stuff> and now there is masses of read activity by wbengine.exe from \Device\Harddisk\VolumeShadowCopy6, which I assume is on C: because my SSD activity light is still almost constantly lit (with no foreground applications running). So I'm guessing that backup has been creating portions of the image of RAID_1 on C: until it got tight on space and then wrote those portions to RAID_Backup, burning the life out of my SSD all the while! Trying to minimise unnecessary activity on my SSD to prolong its life, is there any way that Windows Backup can be configured (e.g in the registry) to not use the SSD for staging? Regards Mark

You need to look at you Back-Up settings. It sounds like you have the RAID selected to be backed up and obviously it is not backing up to itself. I have an SSD in each of my notebooks and neither of them write to the SSD during backup as I have an external drive designated as the target for the backups. So, your problem must be in your backup configuration.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.