by taz » Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:29 am
Alt wrote:taz wrote:In your earlier message you said it is recommended to make images of the disks, I suppose if something goes wrong you just recreate the disks from the images and try again to fix the array... I do have additional storage to make such big images of the 1TB hard disks of the raid array, but with what application can this be done since I don't have the usual "access" to the array's hard disks? I hope you understand what I am trying to ask...
A little bit different, data is recovered from the images. If something goes wrong, the original data on the disks will still be intact. So, if you have enough disk space, create the images. You may use R-Studio to do so, even in the Demo mode.
Images. As I understand, the disks are connected to the computer via on-board SATA ports? If yes, just image them as usual hard drives.
That sounds really advantageous, up until now I didn't know you can create images of array hard disks and play safely by creating a virtual raid array out of them, I will definitely follow this path that you recommend to start with (trying to muster courage to do it, the most valuable thing in my raid is 6 years worth of family photos, I don't care about my collection of music, movies or anything else in there, those can be replaced in time...)
I suppose these images can be created in a larger hard disk, correct? ie to put 2 or 3 1TB images together in a 3TB hard disk... doesn't have to be disk for disk, right?
[quote="Alt"][quote="taz"]In your earlier message you said it is recommended to make images of the disks, I suppose if something goes wrong you just recreate the disks from the images and try again to fix the array... I do have additional storage to make such big images of the 1TB hard disks of the raid array, but with what application can this be done since I don't have the usual "access" to the array's hard disks? I hope you understand what I am trying to ask...[/quote]
A little bit different, data is recovered from the images. If something goes wrong, the original data on the disks will still be intact. So, if you have enough disk space, create the images. You may use R-Studio to do so, even in the Demo mode. [url=http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unformat_Help/diskimages.html]Images[/url]. As I understand, the disks are connected to the computer via on-board SATA ports? If yes, just image them as usual hard drives.[/quote]
That sounds really advantageous, up until now I didn't know you can create images of array hard disks and play safely by creating a virtual raid array out of them, I will definitely follow this path that you recommend to start with (trying to muster courage to do it, the most valuable thing in my raid is 6 years worth of family photos, I don't care about my collection of music, movies or anything else in there, those can be replaced in time...)
I suppose these images can be created in a larger hard disk, correct? ie to put 2 or 3 1TB images together in a 3TB hard disk... doesn't have to be disk for disk, right?