Hey guys. I know a lot of the folks in here double as engineers in the real world so I have a question for you Data Center guys. I am in the process of upgrading the system below. I am going to an X38 chipset with the Asus Maximus Extreme and 2 gigs of OCZ Reaper DDR3/1333. The real goal is to take advantage of the true Dual 16x PCIE of the X38 and the overclocking abilities of that board. With this memory and liquid cooling on the board itself I am hoping for 4.2-4.3 with the memory at DDR3/1333. That is a lot of CPU/Memory bandwidth and GPU bandwidth :)My question is this: I am currently running 2 SATA drives in Raid-0 but they are the original SATA standard. I ordered 2 SATA3 WD Caviar drives that I am going to add to the system. Ideally I would like to move everything to the newer drives with more bandwidth. I "could" just build another Raid Array and then use Acronis to do a disc copy to the new array, switch the boot order remove the two original drives and go. With Raid I was wondering if I could just add the two additional drives to my existing array and then pull the two old drives out? Can I save data and move to 0+1 on the fly? What would the experts recommend?Thanks,-PaulPrimary RigLiquid CooledIntel C2D E8500 @3.8 gigsAsus P5N32SLI-Plus2 gigs Corsair XMS PC6400 4 4 4 12 @936Dual OC'd XFX 8800GTX @ 2 gigs24 inch Widescreen LCD 16XAA/16XAFDual 19 inch LCD'sRaid-0PCPower and Cooling 1k Quad SLIhttp://home.comcast.net/~psolk/3monitorsa.htmlBackup RigAMD 4000 San Diego @ 2.72 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2XFX 7900 GTX Raid-0

No suggestions?Primary RigLiquid CooledIntel C2D E8500 @3.8 gigsAsus P5N32SLI-Plus2 gigs Corsair XMS PC6400 4 4 4 12 @936Dual OC'd XFX 8800GTX @ 2 gigs24 inch Widescreen LCD 16XAA/16XAFDual 19 inch LCD'sRaid-0+1PCPower and Cooling 1k Quad SLIhttp://home.comcast.net/~psolk/3monitorsa.htmlBackup RigAMD 4000 San Diego @ 2.72 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2XFX 7900 GTX Raid-0

Hey guys,I am really sorry to be a pain and I apologize for bumping my own thread. I don't come asking for help often but the new mobo is here as are the new drives and the memory. I was hoping for some assistance befor I got started :)Thanks in advance, i really appreciate any help or suggestions.-PaulPrimary Rig in process of being rebuilt..Liquid CooledIntel C2D E6600 @3.8Asus P5N32SLI-Plus going to Asus Maximus Extreme2 gigs Corsair XMS PC6400 4 4 4 12 @936 Going to DDR3/1333 Dual OC'd XFX 8800GTX @ 2 gigs24 inch Widescreen LCD 16XAA/16XAFDual 19 inch LCD'sRaid-0+1PCPower and Cooling 1k Quad SLIhttp://home.comcast.net/~psolk/3monitorsa.htmlBackup RigAMD 4000 San Diego @ 2.72 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2XFX 7900 GTX Raid-0

:) I have been watching this thread Paul, hoping that someone would assist you who really knows RAID. I am not one of those people. It is true that I manage a RAID-5 and RAID-1 at work, but I do not feel like I can give what you wanted--and that is expert advice--To recap, you wish to take your present RAID0 array to a RAID0+1 setup?I think you are on the right track with what you described doing with Acronis. However, my concern would be, with the RAID controller you have--when you set up the mirror, will it know to keep your existing data intact?Let's hear from RAID experts now...my post may not help you directly, but perhaps it will bump it to where we get a RAID person in here...RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Hey Rhett! Thanks for the response, I appreciate any help I can get ;)I use Acronis Universal Restore so it is not looking for the HAL anyway. As long as I have a new array waiting for the data via the BIOS it will handle the data transfer. I could even use a single drive if I want to, that is what makes Acronis so useful. I like to think of Acronis as Ghost on steroids LOL. It will do all the work of stripping the HAL and restoring your data with a barebones XP. All you need to do is install the new drivers for XP. This way you can move XP and FS to new HW which I do way too often without having to re-install :)What I was thinking was if I was doing Raid 0+1 then theoretically I shouldn't have to copy all of the data once I restore. What I would like to do is to be able to use Acronis to restore then add drives to the existing array converting to 0+1 and then remove the existing drives. (theoretically) I was hoping one of the RAID experts could chime in on that piece.Otherwise I will just swap HW, restore, install a 2nd array and then copy the data from one array to the other via a full Disc Copy in Acronis. Then once I have mirrors of each other I can just swap the bootable array... That is option 2Thanks for the help Rhett, I really appreciate it.-PPrimary RigLiquid CooledIntel C2D E6600 @3.2 gigsAsus P5N32SLI-Plus2 gigs Corsair XMS PC6400 4 4 4 12 @810Dual OC'd XFX 8800GTX @ 2 gigs24 inch Widescreen LCD 16XAA/16XAFDual 19 inch LCD'sRaid-0+1PCPower and Cooling 1k Quad SLIhttp://home.comcast.net/~psolk/3monitorsa.htmlBackup RigAMD 4000 San Diego @ 2.72 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2XFX 7900 GTX Raid-0