PCA Forums

I am about to get rid of my RAID setup.It is way too slow and the seek time sucks. I want to know if there is anyway of saving anyof the data that is on the two hard drives. I am going to go with a three drive setup. If I Configure the third drive, a new Maxotr 40 GB 100 as the primary drive with a clean install of 2K can I use the other two drives, IBM 45 GB deskstars, drives 2 and 3 without reformating? Here is the rest of the setup. Please let me know if I am going about this correctly. Must I use the RAID set up to use all 8 IDE's? Thanks for the help.
KT7A Raid
1 Ghz T Bird
512 MB ram
Plextor 40/16/10
Kenwood 72X
250 MB Zip Internal
G450 Dual Head
Win TV PVR
Hercules XP

ZAPPLE

uh sure. Burn it to a CD, Write it to a Zip Disk, or throw in another HD and just transfer the files to it!

Wait i think i missed something. You want to unraid the two IBM drives and throw in a new Maxtor. You want the Maxtor to be the OS but keep all the data on the IBM? this isnt possible. The data (raid) is spread over both drives and unless you keep raid, it's useless data. You will need to transfer these files to another hd, cd-r/rw, or zip. Then you will have to format the disk and start them off fresh.

I've never done RAID before, i'm all SCSI, so if i'm wrong in any of this, someone please chime in. I think i'm right, but hell you never know

Once you get rid of the RAID controller, the data on the two drives will NOT be accessable. Burn anything you want to a CD because once the array is destroyed (which you should do before going back to IDE), all the data will be lost.

so i guess i was right!

just ghost the raid array to the new hard drive, then you can fdisk the two hard drives into whatever you need.

Please tell me if this is possible: I want to add a New Hard drive to the ALREADY running RAID ( 2 IBM 45 GB Deskstars) Can I add the third drive on a seperate ribbon and have the system detect the third HD and use it to BU my data from the already running raid hdd's to this third HDD. Can the system run the raid with an IDE HD? I have over 36 GB's to BU and making all of these CD's................................... Also I heard it is not possible to run Ghost to BU a RAID set up. Is this true? Thanks for the help
ZAPPLE

you can add the hd on a seperate cable, and the system will detect it. Ghost does work for raid backups as well.

you could add the new hd to another IDE channel. Then just TRANSFER the files from the other HD's to this one. Your IBM drives probably look like one huge drive, so just drag and drop the folders/files you want onto the new hd, and you will be set to go