If you go RAID0, how easy is it to revert?

[mooseAndSquirrel]

If I set up 2 drives on RAID 0 and go for a while, then change my mind and want to have my 2 drives separate, what steps are involved (if it's even possible) to keep all of my data on 1 drive?

 

[Vegito]

copy everything out and break raid, re-fdisk and format and restore, easy to use ghost..

 

[bozo1]

Not going to happen. You'll have to backup your data somehow - another drive, CD, whatever. When you break the array, the data is toast.

 

[thomsbrain]

<< Not going to happen. You'll have to backup your data somehow - another drive, CD, whatever. When you break the mirror, the data is toast. >>

 

[BreakApart]

<< Not going to happen. You'll have to backup your data somehow - another drive, CD, whatever. When you break the raid, the data is toast. >>




Amen...

EDIT: lol... the answer i quoted is correct, except that "mirror" was included by mistake.

 

[Train]

raid 0 isnt a mirror guys, its striping, mirrored drives you can save, but striped you can not, youd have to copy it all to another location then reformat the drives as regular drives.

 

[Adul]

<< raid 0 isnt a mirror guys, its striping, mirrored drives you can save, but striped you can not, youd have to copy it all to another location then reformat the drives as regular drives. >>

 

[BreakApart]

<< raid 0 isnt a mirror guys, its striping, mirrored drives you can save, but striped you can not, youd have to copy it all to another location then reformat the drives as regular drives. >>




picky picky, all the answers are correct except the word mirror was used by mistake.

 

[bozo1]

yea yea yea I know

There, I fixed it.