I have a RAID 0 and want to clone it to a single drive, Potential Problems?

[jdl8422]

I have two 1.5TB HDs, RAID 0, as my itunes library. I use Time Machine to back up all my drive, but I also wanted to clone the RAID but only use a single drive as the clone. Will this cause any potential problems since its going from a 2 drive RAID to a single drive. Thanks

 

[gugucom]

It depends of the degree of utilization. The biggest single dribves that I know off are two TB. So if your 3 TB array holds less than 2 TB of data you should be ok with the cloning.

 

[TheStrudel]

You had enough media to stripe 1.5 TB? I encode in lossless and still...

 

[jdl8422]

I have two 1.5TB drives for my itunes. I currently only use 700GB. 140GB is music the rest are movies. I plan to rip more movies, but at the moment I am still under a 1.5TB drive, so for now I was going to clone my (2)1.5TB drives to a single 1.5TB drive. My main concern was something getting screwy since I have 2 drives going to one.

 

[TheStrudel]

Nah, as long as your space is under the limit, you're fine. Clone away. I suggest carbon copy cloner or super duper.

 

[Zerozal]

You shouldn't have any problems. I use CarbonCopyCloner to clone my 2x 1TB drives to a single external. As long as there is enough free space on the target drive to hold what you have on your RAID array you're fine.

 

[Tesselator]

Yep it all just works.

I do this kinda a lot.

Disk Utility is a little faster than CCC tho.