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Hi all,
I currently have around 7-8 TB's of data across 4/5 drives in my PC. I'm thinking I really need to sort out a possible RAID5 array so if a drive goes down I don't lose everything on it.
My question is, can I setup a raid array with my current drives without losing the data on them? If not (which I think is going to be most likely), can I setup an array with 2 new drives, copy the data of an existing drive to the new RAID, then add the empty drive the the new array. And then do that for the rest of the old drives until I have one big RAID?
I currently have around 7-8 TB's of data across 4/5 drives in my PC. I'm thinking I really need to sort out a possible RAID5 array so if a drive goes down I don't lose everything on it.
My question is, can I setup a raid array with my current drives without losing the data on them? If not (which I think is going to be most likely), can I setup an array with 2 new drives, copy the data of an existing drive to the new RAID, then add the empty drive the the new array. And then do that for the rest of the old drives until I have one big RAID?