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I have a RAID-1 of 1TB drives using on-board RAID. I have 2 new 240GB SSDs I want to place in RAID-0. This is Windows Server 2012.

I know with disk cloning/transferring that it is important going from small to bigger sized disks. Do I need to drop all my free space to it's own partition then copy/clone the partition with the contents on it?

Can I just use cloning software to clone from the RAID-1 to RAID-0?

Yes, I understand RAID-0 is not ideal or safe. I just would like to the performance gain and I keep backups on several NAS devices and other locations.

Jason
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If the cloning software operates at a filesystem level, then yes it is just that easy. You could also use some sort of dircopy type program (I'm more familiar with linux, myself) - basically, anything that simply copies recursively from the old RAID-1 to the new RAID-0 will work.

John
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The answer on this one is, "it depends". It depends on the software doing the restore back to the new array. Some software has the option to allow restore to a smaller partition, such as Acronis. Some automatically will fail if the source partition is greater than the new destination, even if the actual used space is well within the limits of the new destination.

Run a defrag beforehand to attempt to cleanup the partition as much as possible.

DanBig
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