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Istvan Gabor wrote:
Currently I have an 160 GB Samsung SATA HD in my system. I would like to put in another 160 GB Maxtor HD and have my whole system (all my current HD) mirrored. As I know this would be a RAID mirror. My questions: 1. Is it possible to set up a mirrored system if I have data already on one of the drives? 2. If yes what would be the process?
Assuming we're talking software RAID, it's possible I believe, although I've never done it myself. The idea is basically to setup a RAID1 array with one drive failed/missing. Once you've got the RAID1 running in degraded mode, you hotremove the "failed" drive, then hotadd your second drive, and it should start syncing, YMMV - I would try this out on a test system first. /Per Jessen, Zürich