Re: How To Un-RAID
- From: "Star Fleet Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)@(SPAM-NOT)hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:30:37 -0400
Do you have a drive with 160GB of total space or 320GB or total space when
looking at the Raid drive in Explorer?
If 160GB of total space, then you have Raid 1 (Mirroring) and your PC
manufacturer should have instructions on their website or in your
documentation on how to break a Raid 1 Mirror. You can then format the old
mirror drive as you wish and store what you wish on the drive.
If you have 320GB of total space, you have Raid 0 (Stripping) and you
can only fix break the stripping by breaking the Raid connection, then
you'll need to reformat both drives and reinstall windows/apps clean.
Reason is a file may be stored in many pieces across both drives. Backup
any important data first, and make sure you have the non-raid drivers for
your motherboard/I-O controller before you start.
Raid 0 gives you speed, Raid 1 gives you mirroring... there are other
forms of Raid 5, 10 and 50, each builds redundancy and speed into the
process, especially when using SCSI 15/20k rpm drives, although the 7200/10k
available for SATA isn't bad for a desktop.
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"shaka" <grr8shaka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My system is set up for either RAID 0 or 1 with 320gb (160x2 SATA. It is
> a WinXP MCE2005 machine. Right now I have it on a RAID 1 configuration.
> I would like to un-RAID it and just have two separate drives. Inorder to
> do this are there any switching of cables required? What procedures are
> involved, etc. Can anyone point me to the right direction, please? TIA
>
> shaka
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