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The answers are unclear wherever I look. I have two 2TB drives for a RAID1 and I want to mirror them while having two partitions on the drives. One partition will be 100GB and contain programs, the other partition will be 1.8TB and contain personal files.
Some may ask why? The answer is that my programs are currently on another older drive and I want to save time and pain uninstalling and re-installing critical programs while merely copying them to the new drives via Shadowcopy.
When I create the RAID1, will both partitions be mirrored? Is this possible?
I am sorry if I am being confusing or unclear.
Post your comment as an answer and delete the comment. Let the OP mark as an answer. :) – Sun – 2015-04-23T18:37:35.977
4RAID-1 will mirror the entire disks, including the partition table and partitions. – Darth Android – 2013-10-22T19:56:20.973
1which means that both my partitions will be mirrored and intact? – mateikav – 2013-10-22T19:59:29.740
That depends largely upon what method you're using to mirror them. Some RAID setups will format the disks before creating a RAID out of them, others can convert a non-RAID disk into a RAID disk with no loss of data. Either way, I wouldn't use a RAID 1 setup for the purpose of copying data. Use a disk imaging tool. – Darth Android – 2013-10-22T20:00:56.360
I don't think you want to do RAID-1 but rather some auto mirroring software. I think you would get into more headaches trying to setup a software raid like that. – Jason McD – 2013-10-22T20:16:13.343
That sounds like a good idea Jason McD...I'm going to try MirrorFolder – mateikav – 2013-10-22T20:24:33.837
Dang it! I could have gotten a checkmark =) – Jason McD – 2013-10-22T20:33:27.933