raid 0 Upgrading RAID 0 Drives

[amardilo]

How do I swap out SSDs in RAID 0 for larger drives?

 

I have 2 480GB SSDs on my PC in RAID 0 (setup through my motherboard BIOS). It's not my main boot drive (that is a M.2 drive) and it's mainly used for apps, games and data storage. I've been running low on room for a while and now have 2 new 1TB SSDs (that I would like to combine into my new RAID 0 setup to replace the 480GB drives).

 

How would I go about switching the drives out and keeping all my data (I have made a clone of the drive to an old HDD using Acronis True Image 2018 and I've backed up my important files to a portable HDD)? Is it possible or do I need to do a different type of back up?

[Pixel5]

the easiest way is probably to put in the new drives and configure them as raid 0 then copy all the data, remove the old drives and assign the same drive letter to the new ones to make all shortcuts work again.

[amardilo]

1 minute ago, Pixel5 said:

the easiest way is probably to put in the new drives and configure them as raid 0 then copy all the data, remove the old drives and assign the same drive letter to the new ones to make all shortcuts work again.

 

Thanks. I think I am out of spare SATA ports. Is there a way to do it by removing one set and putting another in?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Motherboard raid is pretty bad at this.

 

Id probalby suggest switching to storage spaces in the os, it works much better. Id put the 1tb drives in a storage spaces array and then copy the files to the new array. Then you can remove the array in the bios, and add those drives to the storage spaces array.

[amardilo]

Might have to look into a different setup.

 

Is there no way to keep the motherboard RAID setup?
 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, amardilo said:

How would I go about switching the drives out and keeping all my data (I have made a clone of the drive to an old HDD using Acronis True Image 2018 and I've backed up my important files to a portable HDD)? Is it possible or do I need to do a different type of back up?

Do you have a backup? You should have a backup, then just swap the drives and restore the backups. You want a file backup here.

 

Or just copy the files to a external hdd.

[amardilo]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you have a backup? You should have a backup, then just swap the drives and restore the backups. You want a file backup here.

 

Or just copy the files to a external hdd.

 

I have the drive cloned to an external HDD. I can create a new backup onto an external HDD. Would the Acronis True Image back up tool be OK for this (never restored a back up before)?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, amardilo said:

 

I have the drive cloned to an external HDD. I can create a new backup onto an external HDD.

If you have all the copied files, then just remote the drives, disable raid on the motherboard, and setup storage spaces.