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RAID 1 Questions

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swoop56

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I have a raid 1 array in my fileserver made up of 2 120GB drives. If I were to break the mirror, would one of my HD's then be able to be used in another system to transfer data over?

Also, would is be possible to reconnect the HD back to the fileserver on the same controller and recreate the mirror?

What I want to do is have all of my data backed up on my 120GB raid array moved to a new raid 1 array on 2 250GB disks, But the new format is going to be in FAT32 so that I can switch my fileserver over to Linux.
 
If the arrays are on two different servers you could just transfer the files over the network.
 
If you break the mirror, and do not WRITE to the disk at all, you may not even have to rebuild.

Power down the file server. Unplug the drive. Do not power up until you replace the drive.

If you only COPY files from the half you moved, and do not write data or move files, when you replace the drive it should be fine and not need to be rebuilt.

Worst case is that it has to rebuild, but since both drives have the data it should be fine.
 
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