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I have two hard drives in raid, i need to copy about 64gigs to another pc, and over the network takes hours, Can i simply take out the single hard drive (one of the ones in raid) and plug it into the other computer and it still work??

Thanks.

For RAID 0 I am pretty sure you can NOT do that. Yo uwould have to remove BOTH drives, set them up as raid on another system - which might even erase them.

Best bet - just suck it up and use the network You should consider upgrading to gigabit network if you do a lot of file transfers - you would not believe how fast it is!!!

Mike

Raid 0 has NO fault tollerance and therefore can not restore your drive if one goes bad - data is written to both drives at once for a performance boost (supposedly - has to be VERY hard drive intensive to be worthwhile)

As said you can't and you shouldnt try!
IF you had a hardware raid controller (thus the raid is saved in the controller BIOS) then you could move both drives and the controller to another computer, but only alltogether

Can't you do it the other way round, and put the non raid drive in the RAID PC?

Dan

DMB2000uk wrote:Can't you do it the other way round, and put the non raid drive in the RAID PC?

Dan

That makes me feel like an idiot now,

That makes me feel like an idiot now,

haha that makes two of us. really i mean it was the simplest thing, but i never thought of it either

lol, overcomplicating things is easy to do, It's always funny when someone points out the obvious though

Dan

WOW, am I am idiot..LOL

Mike