"BIG mode" external hard drive question

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CANiSLAYu

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Hi all. I have a quick question. I have an external enclosure that has 2x 1TB hard drives set up in BIG mode, so it looks like one virtual 2TB drive. I have a separate 1TB hard drive and I need to save some desk space so I am looking at a larger, single enclosure.

If I take out the two drives that are in BIG mode and put them in the new enclosure in JBOD mode, will it lose the data that is already on the drives? TIA!
 
If I take out the two drives that are in BIG mode and put them in the new enclosure in JBOD mode, will it lose the data that is already on the drives? TIA!
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Since they are in either raid 0 or spanning you can not separate the drives and keep the data without keeping the same raid / spanning mode. This is probably a proprietary raid however a linux live cd will probably be able to read the drives as an array if you lost the external enclosure.
 
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