One drive to raid - reinstall OS?

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

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I currently have one drive with two partitions, one OS on each. If I get another drive, or two new ones and want to raid them for performance, will I need to reinstall the OS?

Is there much benefit to raid? I often move large files around.

Cheers
 
There's benefits and problems too. If something goes wrong with one of your disk drives then you generally lose all of your data. I've just set up 2 of my 750GB drives with a "software RAID". I've set my drives to be dynamic drives, and then you can span data over multiple drives (as many as you want I think including partitions) without having to "RAID" them. This doesn't seem to increase performance, but it doesn't lower it either. (from my experiance)
 
Ol!ver said:
I currently have one drive with two partitions, one OS on each. If I get another drive, or two new ones and want to raid them for performance, will I need to reinstall the OS?
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Generally, yes, a reinstall is required.

Ol!ver said:
Is there much benefit to raid? I often move large files around.

Cheers
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Have a search in the old posts, there's a big thread discussing just that.
 
Reckon I'll do away with the RAID idea as I can't be doing with reinstalling two OS' that I've just got working as I want.

How easy would it be to install a new 500gb drive and clone the two partitions to it, meaning that I can then take the old one out and carry on ?
 
That's easy. Either Ghost (2003 for preference) or Acronis True Image will do it and you can download a trial version of ATI.
 
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