How to go from raid 0 to 1

[isoflavone]

Have two identical drives set up for striping and would like to change to mirroring. This newby would like help in making the change. It is the cheap kind of raid on a MSI motherboard not with a separate controller.

 

[DaveSimmons]

1. back up your data since you will lose it all (and half of the storage capacity)
2. read the instructions in the friendly manual about formatting the drives for raid-1

 

[Crusty]

why not buy 2 more drives and run raid 1+0?

 

[boomerang]

Image or copy to another drive and then copy back to your RAID 1.

 

[Zepper]

Others have shown you the way, so I'll just add some info:
RAID-1 will cost some performance against a single drive setup and significantly more against RAID-0. Whereas 0+1 will have about the same perf as 0 alone. Just to be sure you understood.
. If it was me, I'd make sure I kept good backups (perhaps to a third IDE drive on one of the normal channels in a removable drive tray - or to a DVD or CD burner, worst to worst) and save the nickels until I had enough for another pair to do 0+1.
. Even then you still have to do backups - RAID-1 doesn't replace backing up if the data is important and/or irreplacable. It's just intended to help minimize down time. It is not unimaginable that certain types of system errors could corrupt/take down all 4 drives at once.

:Q

.bh.

 

[isoflavone]

Thanks everyone. Since the two drives are less than half full, I was hoping there was a way to transfer it all to one drive then mirror. Kinda thought that was a dumb day dream on my part.