Raid #0

[kappage]

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.

[KnightRid]

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)

[dkarko]

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

[DMB2000uk]

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

Dan

[kappage]

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,

[dkarko]

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

[DMB2000uk]

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

Dan

[KnightRid]

WOW, am I am idiot..LOL

Mike