Thread: How To break apart a Raid Setup? HELP!
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Old 04-21-2007, 03:00 AM  
Shaze
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Originally Posted by rock-reed View Post
Hello everyone...

We have a hi-end Dell editing station that is 1 gig and set up as a Raid 5.

Is there an easy/efficient way to break-apart the Raid and just use the system as 4 individual hard-drives?

Each at 250 gig per?

The Raid 5 is just slowing the system down really badly.

Any help is greatly appreciated...

And Kind Regards...
you can't break the raid 5 without losing the data on the drives. you'll have to backup the data first and then reinstall the OS and then restore the backup.
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