Building Raid 1

[maddude]

I want to put a raid 1 in my server and am wondering, if i were to pull one of the harddrives out after being set up as a raid 1, could the drives work on their own? I think what I'm trying to ask is hard to explain. If I pull a hd out of the raid, and put it in another computer, will the hd show up with all the data on it?

Hope that makes sense.

 

[BillParrish]

In theory yes. I have never tried it

 

[unhappy_mage]

The answer is "probably not". If the raid controller uses on-disk configuration stored at the front of the disk, the other machine trying to read the drive as a stand-alone disk will try to read the configuration as a partition table, and end up with incorrect results.

What exactly are you trying to do? Raid 1 is not backup, it's only an uptime increasing device. If you put your data on a raid 1 it's relatively immune to disk failure, but a virus, slip of the finger, or controller failure could still destroy your data. If you think backup is expensive, you should check out recovery services. They're not exactly cheap either.