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RAID1 on SATA drives
Hello all,
I would like to clone a Seagate SATA drive to another drive (It's my boot drive) My new drive is a larger seagate SATA drive. My PC has the abaility to create a RAID drive in the boot options (before windows is running) My goal is to create a RAID 1, then remove the original and run the new drive and the primary drive in the PC. My question is this. Can a raid be established on different size drives? My new one is larger than the first drive. Thanks in advance. Squat, |
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RAID1 on SATA drives
It is my understanding that in order to create a RAID array you wll need
drives of the same size..........maybe even from the same company. peter "Squat" wrote in message ... Hello all, I would like to clone a Seagate SATA drive to another drive (It's my boot drive) My new drive is a larger seagate SATA drive. My PC has the abaility to create a RAID drive in the boot options (before windows is running) My goal is to create a RAID 1, then remove the original and run the new drive and the primary drive in the PC. My question is this. Can a raid be established on different size drives? My new one is larger than the first drive. Thanks in advance. Squat, |
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I've never done it, but I have read that it is possible to use
different-sized disks to make an array. The result, however, will be the same size as if all of the drives were the same as the SMALLEST one. It might be more satisfactory to spend some more cash on a twin to your new drive. Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "Squat" wrote in message ... Hello all, I would like to clone a Seagate SATA drive to another drive (It's my boot drive) My new drive is a larger seagate SATA drive. My PC has the abaility to create a RAID drive in the boot options (before windows is running) My goal is to create a RAID 1, then remove the original and run the new drive and the primary drive in the PC. My question is this. Can a raid be established on different size drives? My new one is larger than the first drive. Thanks in advance. Squat, |
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Bob Knowlden wrote:
I've never done it, but I have read that it is possible to use different-sized disks to make an array. The result, however, will be the same size as if all of the drives were the same as the SMALLEST one. It might be more satisfactory to spend some more cash on a twin to your new drive. Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. To give an example, if you tried RAID1, using a 40GB and a 320GB drive, the resulting mirrored array has a capacity of 40GB, and 280GB on the second drive is inaccessible. Given the low price of drives, buying two new ones ro make a RAID1, makes more sense. Paul "Squat" wrote in message ... Hello all, I would like to clone a Seagate SATA drive to another drive (It's my boot drive) My new drive is a larger seagate SATA drive. My PC has the abaility to create a RAID drive in the boot options (before windows is running) My goal is to create a RAID 1, then remove the original and run the new drive and the primary drive in the PC. My question is this. Can a raid be established on different size drives? My new one is larger than the first drive. Thanks in advance. Squat, |
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RAID1 on SATA drives
"Paul" wrote in message ... Bob Knowlden wrote: I've never done it, but I have read that it is possible to use different-sized disks to make an array. The result, however, will be the same size as if all of the drives were the same as the SMALLEST one. It might be more satisfactory to spend some more cash on a twin to your new drive. Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. To give an example, if you tried RAID1, using a 40GB and a 320GB drive, the resulting mirrored array has a capacity of 40GB, and 280GB on the second drive is inaccessible. Given the low price of drives, buying two new ones ro make a RAID1, makes more sense. Paul Thanks, This might work if I can remove the smaller drive later and use it as a recovered drive. My main problem is that I can not copy all of drive A: (the smaller, older drive) to the newer drive. (it's larger) Windows crashs while copying it and so does the Seagate utility that came with the drive. I was hoping the Raid function might work around it by copying everything to the new drive as a back up and then installing the new drive in place of the older drive. Think it will work? S |
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RAID1 on SATA drives
If all you want to do is move to a new larger hard drive, all you need is
something like Acronis TrueImage. It'll allow you to clone your original HD to the larger one, resizing the partitions as part of the process. "Squat" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... Bob Knowlden wrote: I've never done it, but I have read that it is possible to use different-sized disks to make an array. The result, however, will be the same size as if all of the drives were the same as the SMALLEST one. It might be more satisfactory to spend some more cash on a twin to your new drive. Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. To give an example, if you tried RAID1, using a 40GB and a 320GB drive, the resulting mirrored array has a capacity of 40GB, and 280GB on the second drive is inaccessible. Given the low price of drives, buying two new ones ro make a RAID1, makes more sense. Paul Thanks, This might work if I can remove the smaller drive later and use it as a recovered drive. My main problem is that I can not copy all of drive A: (the smaller, older drive) to the newer drive. (it's larger) Windows crashs while copying it and so does the Seagate utility that came with the drive. I was hoping the Raid function might work around it by copying everything to the new drive as a back up and then installing the new drive in place of the older drive. Think it will work? S |
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