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ATA mirroring
Thanks, Freestone. I think my mind is made up. I'm going with 1 160 Gb drive (free upgrade from 80 Gb) for now. I can always buy a 250 Gb external USB drive, extra HD and RAID card (that you mentioned--thanks!) to copy all data to the USB drive, add new HD, add new RAID card and configure to...- bardsong
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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ATA mirroring
Has anyone ever "converted" from RAID 1 on two drives to RAID 0 or no RAID? Just thinking ahead that if my two RAID 1 hds ever get full, that I could double the space by changing the RAID. Ideally I'd see two drive letters in Windows Explorer, be able to read/write from both and initially see...- bardsong
- Post #6
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Convert from RAID 1 to RAID 0?
Hi all, I'm looking at buying a new HP desktop with a 160 Gb RAID 1 configuration. If and when these drives ever get full and I want the entire 320 Gb for storage, can I switch to RAID 0 or the absense of RAID? What will I need to do? Has anyone out there ever done this? Thanks in advance.
