From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>
Subject: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:35:45 +0800
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Hi,

I have a nicely working RAID5 (8 200GB drives), so I'm not completely 
new to this game...

However, I think I now have a failing system disk. I'm getting seek 
errors/etc in syslog; however, smart tests complete without any problems.

Anyway, I am thinking of buying two new drives and making a RAID1 system 
disk.

My failing disk is a Maxtor 80GB, and I am thinking of getting Western 
Digital WD800JB (my 200's are all WD2000JBs) - though the warranty on 
Western Digital is only one year (in my location). Any advice on choice 
of drive?

What would the procedure be for moving the data off my Maxtor onto a 
RAID1 of 2 WD800JBs?

Max.