Tom Austin wrote:
> Tim Nikias wrote:
>> Tom Austin wrote:
>>> If the setup can take a simple copy, that would work and save a lot 
>>> of time.
>>>
>>> But if the system cannot take a simple copy, it is an alternative.
>>
>> Aside of a few troubles with how the software tells what it's doing (I 
>> mirrored the old drive onto the new one to find that it didn't rebuild 
>> the Raid 1, so I had to copy all over again when I said to rebuil), it 
>> worked flawlessly:
>> 1. Exchange first faulty HD with bigger one
>> 2. Mirror small drive onto big one
>> 3. Exchange second faulty small HD with bigger one
>> 4. Mirror from big to big
>> 5. Use Windows to partition the new 230GB worth of space
>>
>> No troubles with the controller figuring that out. :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim
>>
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> Just in case I need to look up a good RAID controller in the future, 
> what are you using?

It's an ULI Raid Controller which is integrated into the motherboard, 
which is an Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe. It's a few years old, when I switched 
from Single Core to Dual Core and exchanged the old PC which had a 
harddrive crash, which taught me the hard way of "better back up". ;-)

At the time I was told that hardware Raid controller are better than 
software based, because there's no load on the processing OS, I'm not 
sure if that has changed, but so far, it didn't fail and kept my data safe.

Regards,
Tim

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aka "Tim Nikias"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>

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