"[GDS|Entropy]" <gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Sweet!
> Thanks for the info.
> I have to work on this machine in its current state until I can get a 
> drive tomorrow, but its creeping slow...will I mess anything up by 
> continuing to use it in this state, or installing stuff?

Should not matter. When you mirror you are just creating a copy of the 
current drive state.

However, keep in mind that the chance of total failure was much lower with 
two drives than you have now with one.

Mike


> ian
>
> "Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
> news:49ab6a09$1@news.povray.org...
>>> I have another open HDD bay, can I add another SATA HDD to the RAID1 
>>> matrix, or do I need two more?
>>
>> You should be able to plug in a new drive and mirror the one that still 
>> works to rebuild the array. Just make sure you select the right one to 
>> mirror :)
>>
>> I have gone through about 3 drives in the last 4 years and just mirror 
>> the data each time, along with occasional backups of important files onto 
>> DVD.
>>
>
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