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rgraves   07-27-2008 at 08:54:47 PM

We have a home built system set up as mirrored RAID, but now want to disable the RAID set and have two separated hard drives.

Is it as simple a deleting the RAID set in the RAID utility at boot up and then having two drives?

Then be able to go ahead and format second drive and have a C: and D: drive setup.

Will system boot up properly and will all data be safe?

It's my son's computer and he needs more drive space and no money at this time for another hard drive.

Any help appreciated.
rgraves

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rodney_ws   07-27-2008 at 09:07:34 PM
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It sounds like you're on the right track. Since both drives should be a mirror image of the other, it seems like a pretty safe procedure. If you have an option to do RAID 0, consider it... you'd regain the full capacity of both drives while at the same time gaining performance.

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rgraves   07-27-2008 at 09:44:52 PM
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Is it easy enough to go from RAID 1 to RAID 0.

We originally had a RAID 0 but one drive went bad and never was able to recover data lost. That's why I'm reluctant to go that route again.

My son just wants a two drive system. He has an external to back up all his music and whatever else he has.

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