Locked Can I move my mirrored drives to a new system easily?

[jodyberry]

Hi all!

I recently asked a question about moving my SSD into a new system and got LOTS of great answers! You guys are the best.

After reading your previous suggestions, I've decided to just use the new OS that comes on my new computer (Win 10 Home). Anyway, along those same lines, I have (2) 4TB drives that I created as a single Win 10 software mirror drive on my existing system (Win 10 Pro).

My question is if I have to do anything special to get my new system to see the 2 drives as a mirror drive. (I do video editing and I try to keep all files redundant).

Originally I had to set it up in Disk Management. Would I have to do anything on my new system when I hook up the 2 drives to make them show as a mirror drive?

Thanks everyone!!

 

[Baronstragen]

If it's a software RAID then there shouldn't be any issues simply moving the drives over, even if it were a hardware RAID, a mirror RAID is pretty forgiving and shouldn't break. You can break the mirror as it won't harm anything since the drives are identical data, then recreate the mirror afterwards.

Cheers

 

[jodyberry]

If it's a software RAID then there shouldn't be any issues simply moving the drives over, even if it were a hardware RAID, a mirror RAID is pretty forgiving and shouldn't break. You can break the mirror as it won't harm anything since the drives are identical data, then recreate the mirror afterwards.

Cheers

Thanks!! So I can recreate the mirror without deleting any existing data?

 

[Baronstragen]

Thanks!! So I can recreate the mirror without deleting any existing data?

(I don't mean offense, I'm a big Supernatural fan, and the last show was filmed 2 days ago Alas, no more.)

Cheers