Taking drives out of raid

Jock · 2 Aug 2012 at 13:53

I bought a system the other day from ocuk and in it i have 2 drives in RAID, the thinking behind which is that my business files would be stored on it for security.

Having received it thouht i'm thinking of backing up differently so is there any easy way to take 2 drives out of raid so they read as 2 seperate drives?

Jock · 2 Aug 2012 at 14:00

Theres nothing on them at the moment so no worries there

Jock · 2 Aug 2012 at 14:24

Thats what I have at the moment. I have the OS on a ssd, then 2x2tb HDD's in Raid 1.

Whereas now i'm thinking of backing up externally so could do with the 2tb as a drive of its own.

Jock · 2 Aug 2012 at 14:43

Its a desktop PC but its for my business so is my bread and butter so to speak.

Thing is, having looked into it in a bit more depth the actual files that are irreplaceable are in fact only a very small percentage of whats on my current hdd's so having a 2tb in raid seems a bit overkill. I could back those specific files up externally, fast and easily and give myself another 2tb hard disk to play with.

Jock · 2 Aug 2012 at 15:04

Cheers for the help guys.

Still not quite decided what to do but got some food for thought.