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I have a 4-bay hard drive enclosure (thunderbolt 2) that I'd like to use to set up a RAID 1+0 drive (to use on my iMac).
If I take a 4TB drive with data on it and add it to this enclosure with 3 brand new 4TB drives, can I instruct SoftRAID to create a 4-drive RAID1+0 volume and use the data already on that first 4TB drive to duplicate/stripe across the other 3 drives?
If so, how do I instruct SoftRAID to do this? I don't want to risk deleting the 4TB drive's data because I fumbled around with the wrong setting!! :)
Thanks much,
Wilburr
Posted : 08/10/2016 9:35 pm
Sorry, no you cannot do it that way.
Here is what you could do:
You have one disk, with all your data.
Disconnect that disk. (Pull it out - best to do this when shut down, but you can do it live, just pull it a few inches out of the enclosure, so it is not spinning)
Initialize all remaining disks on the Thunderbay
Create a 2 drive stripe on your Thunderbay.
Now you can insert the disk with data.
Copy the data to the stripe volume.
When the copy is complete, you have all your data on a RAID 0 volume.
Unmount the stripe volume and remove those disks.
When you run SoftRAID make sure they do not show up.
Initialize the disk with 4TB of data with SoftRAID.
Push in the two stripe disks.
SoftRAID will show 2 disks as part of a stripe and two disks with no links, but in SoftRAID disk format.
Now you can use "convert" and convert your volume to a RAID 1+0. You can use your volume while it rebuilds.
Posted : 09/10/2016 5:20 am
