Adding HDD's to already raid 1 configured server

prosedan84

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Our server at work is getting full, we have two 500gb hard drives running in raid 1 at the moment but the drives are getting full. The server has more bays and I want to add some bigger hard drives to it and also try to run them in Raid 1 as well but just as back up drives. But I am going to need to transfer the information from the current hard drives to the new ones without losing anything and then keep backing up to the new drives. What is the best way to go about doing this? I hope this all made sense lol. Thanks.
 

prosedan84

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The server has 4 bays, so I what I was possibly thinking is to get 4 2tb drives and set them up as raid 10. I was thinking that I could clone the drive to the raid 10 array once it was all setup. Do you guys think this would work?