Raid 1 for two 3tb drives

HackitZ · 8. November 2013

Hi all, I have a question about raid and maybe some advise.

i have all my data on one 3 tb drive, just bought another one and was thinking of setting up raid 1 software raid through omv.

so do i need to store the data forst as do both drives need to be empty to setup software raid?
also would it be worth it to setup raid 1, i'm looking to have my data on 2 drives encase of drive failure and not loose all my data.

Thanks

ryecoaaron · 8. November 2013

You would have to store your data elsewhere while creating the raid 1 array. Is it content that changes a lot? If not, you could setup a cron job to sync the drives every day (or any other time frame).

HackitZ · 9. November 2013

Thanks, that sounds better as one drive is new and the othe is about 2 years old.

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