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Hardware Upgrade

Started by Cav23 , Jun 16 2006 08:17 AM

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Cav23

Posted 16 June 2006 - 08:17 AM

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I will be upgrading my computer to a Raid system. I would like to do this without having to purchase another copy of windows xp. Is it possible to install my old hard drive in this new system?

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warriorscot

Posted 16 June 2006 - 10:15 AM

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Well yes but you cant use it in a RAID array, but thats not advisable unless you are going mirrored which most dont, RAID isnt really advisable as its performance increase is negligable compared to risk and cost. A striped array if it fails is difficult to impossible to rebuild easily and if one drive becomes completely non operational there is no chance of data recovery.