Hard drive failure

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

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One of my hard-drives set up in raid10 has failed. This is the 2nd one in a year. First time what ever happened totally took out everything, computer wouldnt even load into windows.
This time the raid drive is bootable but is listed as degraded.

Is it possible to buy two 1terabyte hard-drives have them as set up as raid1, but first of all have one put into the raid10 array to copy over/back up everything.

If that makes sense.
So going from
4x500Gb
to 2x500Gb and 1tb
to 2 x 1tb with out the need to reinstall anything....

Also these hard-drives are noisey as so looking to quieten them down.
 
atm you have 1 dead 500gb and 3 working ones yes? ok simples:

(1) buy the 1tb drives and connect one of them, don't add it to the existing raid 10 array
(2) use norton ghost or whatever to clone the stuff on the current array to the new drive
(3) remove the current array and set it to boot off the 1tb drive
(4) use disk manager to expand your partition to fill the drive or create more, your choice
(5) install the 2nd 1tb drive
(6) clone the 1tb drive to the blank 1tb drive
(7) reboot and create a raid 1 array using the 1tb drives, it doesn't matter which one you select as the source drive as they will be identical anyway

You can skip step 6 to save time but doing it removes the possibility of a muck up during step 7
 
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thanks!

Any suggestions for hard-drives? Just looking for quiet and reliable ones.
Can't remember my current ones, I know I have one hitachi (purple shirt lot blank box job) as I needed to rush out and buy one as I needed the comp for uni....think the others are seagate.
 
depends if you want performance or power saving, either way id recommend Samsung (Ecogreen F2 is power saving, Spinpoint F3 is performance) as they are my personal preference, but other drives have good reviews too, you usually cant go wrong by buying a drive with a truckload of positive reviews
 
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