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    Raid 0 cloning, help needed

    I have a system that has raid 0, but want to purchase a single external drive and clone the raid 0.
    Is this possible with an noob easy application? I remember using a program called ghost disk many years ago, but that was single to single drive.
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    Re: Raid 0 cloning, help needed

    Quote Originally Posted by fazer View Post
    I have a system that has raid 0, but want to purchase a single external drive and clone the raid 0.
    Is this possible with an noob easy application? I remember using a program called ghost disk many years ago, but that was single to single drive.
    I would've thought Norton Ghost (or similar drive imaging program) would work fine for this, since the RAID array is essentially a single disk. Haven't used any of these programs in years though, so I'll leave it for someone else to recomend one, may even be a free alternative nowdays.
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    Re: Raid 0 cloning, help needed

    Your raid array should appear as a single logical drive, so you should be able to use any of the usual cloning tools to clone it to another (logical or physical) drive.
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    Re: Raid 0 cloning, help needed

    Ahhh. Thanks for the replies. I assumed it would be alot more complicated.
    So you think it would work, and then once having this cloned external drive, I would be able to removed the old drives and boot up with the cloned unit?
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    Re: Raid 0 cloning, help needed

    Yeah should work fine.

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