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Riccardo
Asked: 2013-03-22 07:53:50 +0800 CST

3Ware 9500-4lp - Single Disk to RAID 1 - Possible? [duplicate]

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I have a single disk attached to a 3Ware 9500-4LP controller. The unit is configured as Single Disk. I have attached 2 more drives, identical size. Can I pair the 3 drives in a RAID 1 config, without destroying data in the single unit? That is, current Single Disk, should be used as the reference to start with.

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1 Answers

    • RAID1 is a mirror which requires pairs of disks not 3.
    • there is no clone option in the bios, creating an array will wipe the existing data, you need to backup and restore.
    • You may be able to migrate with 3dm2 although the documentation is conflicted

    Handily you have 3 drives so you can create the array on the 2 other drives, use disk partitioning software to copy the data across, and then remove the original drive from the system.

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