Raid 1 HELP

carguyzack17 · September 12, 2016

Does anyone know if this is possible? Building new computer for a resturant i want to make a raid 1 for the new drive on ssd's but i want to mirror the old drive that is in the computer now is this possible? im sorry im terrible at explaining things if i need to clerify i will.

Thanks- Zack

September 12, 2016

Raid 1 is possible. There question solved

carguyzack17 · September 12, 2016

No i want to mirror the old drive from the old computer onto the raid 1

and im not stupid yes i understand that raid 1 is possible

knightslugger · September 12, 2016

commonly called RAID10 or 1+0

a mirrored stripped pair. 3 drives.

I imagine you're doing this for some redundancy. not sure why you need the extra performance boost of a SSD RAID1 on a restaurant computer...

PixelHat · September 12, 2016

A RAID 1 is great, but to create it you'll have to copy all your data from your SSD onto an external drive, make the RAID on the system (will wipe your data), then copy the data from the external drive back onto the created RAID.

Captain_WD · September 13, 2016

15 hours ago, carguyzack17 said:

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Hello

So, just in order to understand properly what you are trying to do: you have an old drive that you want to "mirror" or transfer the data from it to a new SSD which will be in a new computer and would like to leave them in a RAID1 array? If that's the case there are a few MAJOR problems with the plan:

- You cannot simply take out a drive with a OS from one computer, plug it into another computer and run the OS on it unless you have the exact same hardware with the exact same settings and firmware versions and driver demands and even then you may encounter issues. You would need to make a fresh install of the OS on the new computer (which will require a reinstall of all applications and games due to the new OS registry) and then connect the old drive and transfer the rest of the data.

- Having a HDD and a SSD on a single RAID array is a bad idea. RAID limits the performance of all drives in the array to the one with the slowest and the capacity of all drives in the array to the one with the smallest. For example, if you have a 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD in a single RAID1 array you will end up with two 120GB drives working with the HDD speed.

- When you place a drive in a regular RAID it is automatically formatted so you would lose all data on the drive.

Could you give more info regarding the build and the planned parts and usage and what part of the data from the old drive you'd like to keep and transfer?

Captain_WD.