Adding Raid1 to non raid server

[PaulGillespie]

Hi Guys, i have a PE1600 with 2x 36gb drives on the onboard scsi card (No RAID), OS is sbs2003.

The server is now heavily used and a harddrive failure would be bad news! I'd like to add RAID1 to the server using the existing drives. I have 2 options as i see it: Software and hardware.

Software would be easy, move the data on the D drive to the C and use disk management to mirror the C drive.

Hardware i'm not so sure of. Could i add an adaptec SCSI RAID card plug the drives into it, boot up into the OS and then use the raid software to set up a mirror using the RAID card. Could the OS handle these changes?

Thanks for your help!
Paul

 

[LawnBoy]

You will wipe out your partitions when you add those drive to an RAID array. Back everything up and be prepared to reinstall the OS.

 

[PaulGillespie]

Cheers LawnBoy,

Reinstalling the operating system is not an option just now. Think i'll just go for the software RAID with 2003 SBS. Better than nothing.

Thanks