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xtrips   11-25-2008 at 10:56:18 AM

Hello,

I have a healthy and functional Dynamic disk under Vista 32bit. This volume is spanned over 5 physical disks, all of them almost full.
I just purchased a NAS that supports 6 physical disks.
My intention is to somehow use my older disks but to achieve that i would need to progressively move my data to the NAS while freeing disks from the Windows RAID and moving them to the NAS.
How do I do that?
I mean is it possible to move data out of my Windows RAID freeing a specific physical disk, then removing it from the RAID and do it again and again until all the Windows RAID is dismantled?

Thank you

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Flakes   11-25-2008 at 04:39:23 PM
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No, the whole point of a RAID is that it spans data across all the disks, you have not mentioned the type of RAID you are using or the controller of the NAS or Windows machine...

if your NAS and motherboard use the same controller you can do a straight transfer as long as the disks are in order, so disk 1 on your windows machine is disk 1 on the NAS.

If its a Raid 5 you can pull 1 disk and the raid will still be ok, if RAID 6 you could pull 2.

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xtrips   11-25-2008 at 07:39:01 PM
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Flakes wrote :

No, the whole point of a RAID is that it spans data across all the disks, you have not mentioned the type of RAID you are using or the controller of the NAS or Windows machine...

if your NAS and motherboard use the same controller you can do a straight transfer as long as the disks are in order, so disk 1 on your windows machine is disk 1 on the NAS.

If its a Raid 5 you can pull 1 disk and the raid will still be ok, if RAID 6 you could pull 2.



As I wrote my source RAID is a Microsoft proprietary RAID called Dynamic disk (software raid found in xp and above).
My target raid is a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro running xraid2 (also a proprietary raid i think).
I think I need someone with a boad knowledge in Windows Dynamic disk.

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