Raid 0 Question

[AzNPinkTuv]

Just a quick question. As you can see in my sig, there is a Raid 0 array of WD scorpio Black's that I use primarily for loading games onto.

Because of the rev 3.0 boards coming out, I'm thinking about putting those drives back in my external and laptop and so I want to clone that raid 0 array onto some standard 3.5 drives. What would be the best way to approach this?

Could I simply set up a new Raid Array through the intel raid manager and then just copy paste data in windows? Or would I have to clone it some how.

The drives I'm looking into are the Spinpoint F3's or something similar.

Also, is it possible for me to put it all onto 1 drive as I haven't noticed too much of a difference in terms of speed for my Raid0 setup.

 

[groberts101]

cloning would only be necessary if you wan to maintain OS functionality. Otherwise just copy/paste the data you need and break the array/reformat to singles.

If you want to put the OS volume(if that's what the existing array is holding) onto another single drive you obviously just need to make sure the data will fit. If using W7 recovery options you will need to shrink the volume before trying to copy a larger volume onto a smaller one. This is unecessary with Acronis True Image as it will auto-shrink the volume to fit as long as the actual data(not partition size) will fit the destination drive.

Hope that helps since I wasn't quite sure of the details there.

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

My OS is on my SSD so thats not a problem.

Based on my understanding of what you just said, the programs will all still run after a simple directory change for shortcuts correct? I'm most concerned about this because my ISP is terrible and I would hate to have to re-download DAII, WoW and what not

 

[Concillian]

I dunno about DAII, but WoW has no special requirements.

Copy, change the shortcut to point to new location, done.

 

[groberts101]

I must have misunderstood/assumed too much as I thought you might be moving the OS with Acronis.

Either way, all the info is correct. If you didn't clone an image over to the SSD with pre-2011 Acronis and change all the pointers correctly, you should be good.