Migrating to a RAID array.

[CrazyJake]

Hey all, I'm hoping someone will be able to enlighten me on a (relatively) easy way of migrating my OS that is currently stored on a single 250gb Samsung 850 evo ssd, to a raid array that I am going to create with this current ssd as well as another identical drive I have ordered. I'm setting the drives up in raid 0 (yes, yes. I will be doing weekly backups) and I currently have a 1tb WD blue hdd in the computer as well for storage. What would be the best way to migrate the data as I'm aware that I'm probably not going to be able to migrate straight to the array as it's going to use the disk that is currently in use with the OS on it. Would I be best to do a back up and then migrate the os to the WD blue and then to the array once it's created or is there an easy way around this? Oh, and I know someone will ask, so I'm using Windows 10  Thanks guys & girls! 

[mikat]

you have to copy it to another drive

and there is no way around it

[MimigaKing]

11 minutes ago, CrazyJake said:

Hey all, I'm hoping someone will be able to enlighten me on a (relatively) easy way of migrating my OS that is currently stored on a single 250gb Samsung 850 evo ssd, to a raid array that I am going to create with this current ssd as well as another identical drive I have ordered. I'm setting the drives up in raid 0 (yes, yes. I will be doing weekly backups) and I currently have a 1tb WD blue hdd in the computer as well for storage. What would be the best way to migrate the data as I'm aware that I'm probably not going to be able to migrate straight to the array as it's going to use the disk that is currently in use with the OS on it. Would I be best to do a back up and then migrate the os to the WD blue and then to the array once it's created or is there an easy way around this? Oh, and I know someone will ask, so I'm using Windows 10  Thanks guys & girls! 

activating any kinds of raid will format all drives during the process. There's no way around it. 

[Tomatodude95]

Personally, I would do a complete reinstall and copy your data to a external/backup drive in the time beeing. You could however also make a complete backup und recover from that to the new array. No matter how you do it though you need to backup your data on to a different disk/place because creating the array will format the SSD and erase all data.

I would also suggest making a backup a bit more often than once a week because loosing a whole weeks work can be quite a lot, unless you don't have any worthy/important stuff on there.

[CrazyJake]

Thanks for the help guys, I think the backup and fresh install and then restoring the backup might be the way to go rather than migrating data twice, as it will only require me to store a backup on the hard drive instead of a backup and fully migrated system. I'll just have to find my windows install disk first. ?