Taking drives out of raid

Jock

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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?
 
press ctrl and i at start up and disable/delete the array

back up all the data on the drives first though
 
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.
 
Seems a bit odd to get rid of the redundancy that a RAID 1 pack would give you, especially when you're talking about extra security. The great thing about a RAID 1 pack is if one drive dies your data is still intact on the other, whereas if you split the pack up and a drive does kick the bucket then you've lost all the data on that drive. Each to their own I guess.
 
for a desktop PC forget raid for file protection, you will only accidently delete something or your outlook.pst will get corrupt...

just keep things simple and back up once a day/week/month
 
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.
 
edscdk said:
for a desktop PC forget raid for file protection, you will only accidently delete something or your outlook.pst will get corrupt...

just keep things simple and back up once a day/week/month
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This doesn't compute :confused: What a ridiculous statement. What happens when you've forgotten to back up for a couple of weeks and the only drive with that important data on has died? At least with RAID 1 you've got that extra reasurrance that if a drive does suddenly die you haven't lost anything, with the added benefit of being able to carry on working using the remaining good drive. All you'd need to do then is purchase a new drive and rebuild the pack again, whilst still being able to carry on working.

I'd agree with the fact that RAID 1 shouldn't be purely used as a backup, but it doesn't half help matters if/when a drive does decide to kick the bucket.

I get the feeling in these forums that certain people really don't fully understand the benefits a RAID 1 pack can bring.
 
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Jock said:
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.
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That's fair enough, I suppose you could consider getting a couple of smaller drives and set a separate pack up on those, providing of course you've got enough SATA connectors on your mainboard.
 
edscdk said:
for a desktop PC forget raid for file protection, you will only accidently delete something or your outlook.pst will get corrupt...

just keep things simple and back up once a day/week/month
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What an awfully dumb comment, sorry. While i agree that overly complicated RAID like parity based ones (especially on desktop class controllers) are not necessary, mirroring like RAID 1 and 10 are great for home use and not complex at all.

You just sound like one of those old fellas who worked near to a mainframe and think RAID is some complex and magical thing that the average home user can't get their head around or you just want to sound like you know what you're talking about.
 
Get a couple of external HDs and cycle those for backups.

Keep your RAID1.

A backup is only a backup if it's offline in a remote location (technically fire zone, but remote location is better).
 
Cheers for the help guys.

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