Can't make sense of drive selections

[jkengineer]

I have a new Win 7 computer with the a 120GB Samsung SSD as the boot drive and 2 3TB Seagate drives set up in a mirror RAID. The Seagates are partitioned to ~2TB and ~1TB. Windows reports them as C: 111.69GB, D: 1953.13GB, and E: 841.27GB, in Windows Explorer. In Disk Management, there are:
Disk 0 containing 100MB System Reserved and 111.69GB C:, Disk 1 totaling 2794.39GB containing 1953.13GB D: and 841.37GB E:, and Disk 2 the same descriptors as Disk 1. However, when I load Clonezilla, I get 8 drive descriptions, they are:

sda1 100M_ntfs_System_Reser(In_Samsung_SSD_840_)Samsung_SSD_EVO_120GB_S105NSADA03657D
sda2 111.7G_ntfs(In_Samsung_SSD_840)_Samsung_SSD_EVO_120GB_S105NSADA03657D
sdb1 1M_LDM(In_ST30000DM001-1CH1)_ST30000DM001-1CH166_Z1F3SFRH
sdb2 127M_Microsoft(In_ST30000DM001-1CH1)_ST30000DM001-1CH166_Z1F3SFRH
sdb3 2.7T_LDM(In_ST30000DM001-1CH1)_ST30000DM001-1CH166_Z1F3SFRH
sdc1 1M_LDM(In_ST30000DM001-1CH1)_ST30000DM001-1CH166_Z1F0L51X
sdc2 127M_Microsoft(In_ST30000DM001-1CH1)_ST30000DM001-1CH166_Z1F0L51X
sdc3 2.7T_LDM(In_ST30000DM001-1CH1)_ST30000DM001-1CH166_Z1F0L51X

The first two, sda1 and sda2 are pretty clearly the two partitions on the SSD -- right sizes as well as the "Samsung". The three parts of the b and c drives have me completely confusedm except they are clearly the Seagates from the ST30000 designation. Why three? Which is which part? What do the numbers mean at the start of the strings? 2.7T looks like the 2794GB as TB, almost, but the 1M and the 127M don't make any sense.

Also, is it safe to treat the b drive as the one that's visible in Windows Explorer and therefore the c drive as the one that mirrors it? I assume it would be a bad thing to write directly to the mirror, as opposed to the "master".

I want to back up the boot drive to the D: drive. Which one is the D: drive???

Help.

Thanks
Jack

PS. I don't know why some of this posts in italic. I did not do it!

[jkengineer]

It occurred to me that I might get some more insight about the Linux view of the drives on the machine by booting into a live CD of a Linux distro. I used Mint 12 and once in it, found Disk Utility, which gave a lot of info. I understand the drive labels better, but am still concerned about where to put a clonezilla image.

Here's what I found.
Machine is reported as having 2 SATA Host adapters, one with 2 ports and no further sub-categories and the second with 6 ports and several drives listed as sub-categories.

1st drive: the Samsung SSD 120GB total, port 1 of SATA adapter, /dev/sda, with MBR partitioning
1st partition: /dev/sda1, System Reserved, 105MB
2nd partition: /dev/sda2, no label, 120GB

2nd drive: one of the Seagate 3TB drives, port 3 of SATA adapter, /dev/sdb, with GUID partioning, all three partitions report "This partition is misaligned by 3072 bytes. This may result in poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested."
1st partition: /dev/sdb1, unknown, 1.0MB, Partition type: Microsoft LDM Metadata Partition, Partition Label: LDM metadata partition
2nd partition: /dev/sdb2, unknown, 133MB, Partition type: Microsoft Reserved Partition, Partition Label: Microsoft reserved partition
3rd partition: /dev/sdb3, unknown, 3TB, Partition type: Microsoft LDM Data Partition, Partition Label: LDM data partition

3rd drive: identical to 2nd except for serial number and /dev/sdc(i), including the warning about misalignment. On Port 4 of SATA adapter.

My concerns and confusion:
The partitions on the Seagate drives do not reflect what the Windows Drive Management shows. Windows does not show the two small partitions on these drives and does show two large partitions as separate "drives" (D: and E:). Linux shows one large data partition of 3TB, rather than the ~2 and ~1TB partitions.
I still don't know which drive I want to write the clonezilla images to. I am concerned that even if I pick the right drive, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc, the writing of the image won't respect the Windows partitioning and could actually write over the boundary between them.

Any advice is appreciated!
Jack

[Steven Shiau]

Clonezilla is not able to handle RAID device well... For hardware RAID like /dev/cciss/c0d0 is OK, but others are not.
Sorry.

Steven.