sata, raid and ghosting

Steeps · 25 Mar 2007 at 23:44

3 years ago i made the wonderful mistake of raiding 2 drives together in my shuttle in raid0. seemed great at the time having one drive but now i don't need all the space due to expanding the network, and i'd like to modify the shuttle so i only have space for one drive in there. i do NOT want to format the hard drive as i have it set up how i like, even after 3 years of using it i like the way it runs.

currently using ~90gb of the 2x 160gb drives i have in there, and i want to shrink it down to just the one 160gb. is it possible to ghost this onto another identical hard drive, but just using the one 160gb drive. i'm not sure if this would be too complicated due to the raid or not. the motherboard is from a shuttle sb75g2, drives are samsung spinpoint 160gb sata's.

Steeps · 26 Mar 2007 at 16:48

i have a 3rd spinpoint 160gb sata, however my motherboard only has 2 sata ports which are being used by the 2 raided drives.

Steeps · 26 Mar 2007 at 19:30

the only ide drive i have is on the end of a usb cable in a caddy, apart from a 100gig one i have in another pc that i could empty. if i got rid of as much data as i could from it, would it work?

Steeps · 28 Mar 2007 at 01:37

so i want to reduce the content to as small as possible, fit the 100gb ide drive i have to the ide controller, clone the hard drive from the sata raid0 to the ide, remove the raid and somehow clone it back to one of the drives using either norton ghost or acronis.

i have 2 more sata disks and another shuttle, i might practice it first on the other shuttle to see what works. will do it next month to see if it works (not much time at the moment i just wanted to see if it was possible.)