[sonstaff]

I would like to upgrade the 320Gb drives on my RAID system to 1Tb drives. I have external drives that will hold the amount of present data, but I would need to transfer the OS as well. Would I just do a 'copy' (utilizing the external drive) from old to new drive on 'slave' setting, then plug the new drives in place of the old setting the new ones to 'master' and have it work? Do the new ones have to both be 'master' ?

[LiveBrianD]

Unless you're using IDE drives, there is no master/slave. To my knowledge, 1TB IDE drives don't even exist.

[LincolnSpector]

sonstaff, on 08 June 2012 - 09:56 AM, said:

I would like to upgrade the 320Gb drives on my RAID system to 1Tb drives. I have external drives that will hold the amount of present data, but I would need to transfer the OS as well. Would I just do a 'copy' (utilizing the external drive) from old to new drive on 'slave' setting, then plug the new drives in place of the old setting the new ones to 'master' and have it work? Do the new ones have to both be 'master' ?

I've never tried to upgrade a RAID, but I assume it would be like upgrading a single HDD: You can either clone it (copy the entire drive to another one, including the boot sector and file table), or image it (back up the entire drive--again including all that stuff--to an external drive, and restore it onto the new drive). It's a matter of what you feel is easier: Set up two RAIDs on the same PC, or or put everything onto an external drive.

Lincoln

[LiveBrianD]

I'm not really sure that you can image a RAID and clone it. (I think you have to reinstall the OS.) I'm not completely sure though.

[MLStrand56]

sonstaff, on 08 June 2012 - 09:56 AM, said:

I would like to upgrade the 320Gb drives on my RAID system to 1Tb drives. I have external drives that will hold the amount of present data, but I would need to transfer the OS as well. Would I just do a 'copy' (utilizing the external drive) from old to new drive on 'slave' setting, then plug the new drives in place of the old setting the new ones to 'master' and have it work? Do the new ones have to both be 'master' ?

Did you RAID your whole C:\???

[sonstaff]

I bought it already set up, I don't know how it was done, I can only see one C:\ with a d:\ and two other partitions on it. I don't know if it is hardware driven or software drive to accomplish the RAID. I would like to get rid of it.

[LiveBrianD]

Do you get any raid controller screen when you boot the computer? (after post)

[sonstaff]

it does tell me there are two drives

[LiveBrianD]

So there is one? But do you just see 2 300GB partitions or what? (from your wording it isn't clear)

[sonstaff]

there are two 320Mb drives, 0 and 1. The computer sees them both as one. so If I cloned two separate 1 Tb drives from the existing 320 Gb drives and swapped them would it work, is my question. Ending up with all my data intact on the new pair of 1Tb drives. Would I have bios problems? and what I don't understand is is this a hardware thing or software thing that makes the RAID. Sorry, I'm trying to be as clear as I can with my limited knowledge.

[LiveBrianD]

Generally, I don't think you can clone a RAID, but according to http://www.todo-back.../clone-raid.htm, with their software, you can. I haven't really messed with RAID myself.

[smax013]

I would image that imaging should work just fine with RAID...whether RAID 0 or RAID 1. To the imaging software, I would think that a RAID array would just look like single drive whether RAID 0 or 1.

Cloning could be a different story, but I am not sure.