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jenzjen

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Aug 20, 2010
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If I swap my boot SSD, do I destroy my Mac's RAID or any other adverse effects to my machine? Ideally, I'd love to plug 'n play the new drive and be on my way.

Background - I have a MP with 5 internal drives, and the RAID is via the disk utility across disks 3 &4:
  1. Boot - 80Gb X25 partitioned for both Mac and Windows
  2. Windows files - 1Tb
  3. Mac RAID - half of 2Tb RAID
  4. Mac RAID - half of 2Tb RAID
  5. Time Machine - 2Tb backup of Mac RAID
I have an opportunity to swap my 80Gb for an 160Gb X25 and have access to a separate Windows 7 machine, so I was going to run the "secure erase" utility via the Intel SSD toolbox on the new 160Gb drive, swap it for the 80Gb drive and re-install both Mac and Windows on this new drive.

All my data for both Mac and Windows are on the separate physical disks, so do I run the risk of losing anything? I worry since the Mac RAID is through the OS that blowing out the drive will cause the RAID to "lose its memory" and simply be destroyed taking my data with it.
 
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