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abshard · 08-18-2010, 11:55 AM

I had 2 hard drives in raid 1, some old 72gig raptors.

About 6 months ago 1 of the drives started "crashing" and needed to be rebuilt a lot until it finally is no longer working.

I have been running the computer with just the 1 drive on sata port 0 and now it?s starting to act up also.

I bought a new drive 500gb 7200rpm.

1. Can I added this drive on sata port 1 and mirror my info even though it?s a totally different drive? (I?m guessing yes)

2. Can I then remove the bad raptor and move the 500gb to sata port 0 and then change the Intel raid utility to use non raid without losing data? I need the extra sata port for another data drive I have.

08-18-2010, 11:55 AM
abshard Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: AZ Posts: 6,352	Can I break raid1 on Intel controller and keep data? I had 2 hard drives in raid 1, some old 72gig raptors. About 6 months ago 1 of the drives started "crashing" and needed to be rebuilt a lot until it finally is no longer working. I have been running the computer with just the 1 drive on sata port 0 and now it?s starting to act up also. I bought a new drive 500gb 7200rpm. 1. Can I added this drive on sata port 1 and mirror my info even though it?s a totally different drive? (I?m guessing yes) 2. Can I then remove the bad raptor and move the 500gb to sata port 0 and then change the Intel raid utility to use non raid without losing data? I need the extra sata port for another data drive I have.