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I referred him to the OP here and then made him a basic wishlist based on that with a few suggestions here and there. He's not into any intensive PC applications that require a beast of a machine, but he's got some head room for upgrading with that build.
Is it possible to break a RAID 1 array without loosing data on the drives? I currently have two WD Caviar Black 1TB's on RAID 1 for storage, but I need storage space over file protection at the moment...
No
Yes
no
i hope you lose all datas
Darn, well I guess I'll have to wait and buy another Caviar Black 1TB at Christmas... Then dump all my datas onto it and split the RAID so I can has 3TB's of storage. :haw:
oh shit I meant yes.
ugh,
Only one drive needs to retain the data, I guess I could test it fairly easily by plugging one of the raid disks into my dads PC... If all the data is there then I'm good to go, just format the other drive and I'm done...
1) Pull out one drive
2) Plug drive back in into different SATA port
3) Copy all data to loner drive
4) Clear RAID array
5) Re-configure new RAID array
Since they're RAID 1, shouldn't the data already be on the "loner drive"?
The reason people run raid 1 is so both drive have the same data... so yes