A little mentoring please.. I am a bit of a newbie to messing in the engine room and buy branded PCs to avoid this chore.
I have a Dell T3500 configured new with two WD 1T hard drives when new, which are getting a bit full.
I went on WD site to see how easy to clone the image of my drives onto large HDD. Seems easy with AcronisWD edition which is free. Well they do say it is simple on the site!!
Bought two 4T drives from DABS - WD Reds for raid.
Now WD are saying that Acronis WD does NOT support Raid and they cannot support me. Lesson there for everyone to see!!
So I buy full Acronis as Acronis say that 2014 wil do what I need. While I am formatting the first drive in a USB caddy, I realise that I dont understand what I am doing.
Do I clone DRIVE 0 (my C drive with operating, programs and data) onto the new 4T drive? I assume so.
BUT what about the second physical 1T drive? Does that need to be cloned onto a SECOND 4T drive? That is what Ii thought when I bought two drives.(Although I could imagine that under Raid 1 it would simply mirror drive 0 anyway)
Reason I ask is that in Computer management - Storage - Disk management, there only shows DRIVE 0 not the mirror.
I know it is physically in the box. and the bootup script fleetingly shows two 1T drives as installed.
Would I expect to see the second drive of the raid? If not, how do I clone it?
Hope this helps everyone as discussing with some pretty bright guys it seems this is an area of mystery.
BTW - Dell are no use at all!! - second lesson for all to see.
Alan
I have a Dell T3500 configured new with two WD 1T hard drives when new, which are getting a bit full.
I went on WD site to see how easy to clone the image of my drives onto large HDD. Seems easy with AcronisWD edition which is free. Well they do say it is simple on the site!!
Bought two 4T drives from DABS - WD Reds for raid.
Now WD are saying that Acronis WD does NOT support Raid and they cannot support me. Lesson there for everyone to see!!
So I buy full Acronis as Acronis say that 2014 wil do what I need. While I am formatting the first drive in a USB caddy, I realise that I dont understand what I am doing.
Do I clone DRIVE 0 (my C drive with operating, programs and data) onto the new 4T drive? I assume so.
BUT what about the second physical 1T drive? Does that need to be cloned onto a SECOND 4T drive? That is what Ii thought when I bought two drives.(Although I could imagine that under Raid 1 it would simply mirror drive 0 anyway)
Reason I ask is that in Computer management - Storage - Disk management, there only shows DRIVE 0 not the mirror.
I know it is physically in the box. and the bootup script fleetingly shows two 1T drives as installed.
Would I expect to see the second drive of the raid? If not, how do I clone it?
Hope this helps everyone as discussing with some pretty bright guys it seems this is an area of mystery.
BTW - Dell are no use at all!! - second lesson for all to see.
Alan