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>> No. 25781 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 12:57 pm
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I want to replace my 2 250GB SATA drives with a single 500GB drive. They're connected to the same SATA card and are in a RAID stripe set up. Can I just plug a single 500GB drive in instead?
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>> No. 25782 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 1:41 pm
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>>25781
Which level specifically?

It probably won't be as simple as unplugging one and inserting the other. To transfer data you'll need to image the array volume and restore it to the new drive, which may be an issue if it's the system volume.
>> No. 25783 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 1:45 pm
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>>25782

RAID level? Level 0, striping.
>> No. 25784 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 2:10 pm
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>>25782

Back your shit and reinstall os to new drive then reinstate your backed up files.
>> No. 25785 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 3:05 pm
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>>25784

Most imaging software will clone RAID arrays.

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/comparison.htm
>> No. 25786 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 4:23 pm
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I don't want to do any cloning, I just want to know if it will physically work. I suppose I'll have to look at the BIOS settings.
>> No. 25787 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 4:41 pm
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>>25786

Definitely. Just disable raid in bios
>> No. 25789 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 4:58 pm
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>>25786
Define "work".
>> No. 25790 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 5:22 pm
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>>25789

Yes because in saying that, you do realise its going to now be half the speed. Effectively you are downgrading.
>> No. 25791 Anonymous
19th January 2017
Thursday 5:57 pm
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>>25790

It's OK, the new one I'm looking at is twice as fast.
>> No. 25793 Anonymous
21st January 2017
Saturday 2:22 pm
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Got it working. I just had to tweak the BIOS a bit.
>> No. 25794 Anonymous
21st January 2017
Saturday 3:52 pm
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>>25790
If its striped it'll still only be reading/writing to a single disk at any given time so the speed difference would be negligible.
>> No. 25795 Anonymous
21st January 2017
Saturday 5:45 pm
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>>25794

It's scarcely worth debating the speed of spinning rust drives, as they're all pitifully slow. Hard drives are fine for archival storage, but you'd have to be bonkers to use one as a working drive. A basic 120gb SSD costs well under £50 these days.

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