I have a PC RAID 0 setup. Could I add backup by adding 1 disk to the array if so how would I do that?

[pete p]

Thank you for your responses in advance! What i'm looking for is if one disk goes and a hypothetical one is setup how would I first setup the 3rd disk to record the 1/2 image of both current disks? If not possible without reformat is there a good way to image a RAID 0 with en effortless restore to new drives?

 

[Midknight_Mike]

There's a name for that sort of thing, RAID 5. It's a special type of RAID array with at least three disks, where if any one fails the others are OK. There aren't a lot of controllers that support this, so it may not be an option.If you can't do RAID 5, you'll need to buy two additional disks and essentially create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array of RAID 0 (striping) arrays -- this is called RAID 10 sometimes.

 

[Andrew]

Yes, you could create a RAID 5 array with an additional disk.However, this will definitely require reformatting your disks. There aren't any point and click ways to do this conversion, but if you had extra space, you could conceivable use Norton Ghost or similar utility to back up the partition and restore it to your new array after you've created it.