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Raid & non-Raid together
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:32:54 GMT, Brian wrote:
I've got a system with 2 drives. I'm hoping to add a RAID card into the mix along with 4 new drives (I was thinking Raid 0+1). I plan to move the existing 2 drives to another computer but before doing so I would like to have the pertinent info on the new RAID system. Can I set up the RAID so that it runs alongside the 2 'ordinary' drives. This would obviously be the faster way to pick and choose amongst the pieces of important (and useless) data/configurations that have accumulated on the old drives. Yes, that'll work fine, all you'd have to do is choose which is the primary boot controller in the bios and/or the drive to boot from. If I can't do this then I can probably do a network copy from the new home for the 2 drives. Is it possible to have ordinary (non-RAID) installed along with a RAID system? Sure, you can even have the non-raid drives running from the raid controller as single drive span(s), but might as well just leave them where they are, on the motherboard controller for the time being till the data is copied off... especially since you want 4 drives on the RAID eventually. |
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