Ok, I have a 1tb drive and will be adding another. Can I create an array with one empty and one with data? will it mirror the other? I know that raid does not = backup but raid 1 plus an external ...

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I'm not sure about adaptec but my promise controller with raid 1 can be plugged into any PATA controller to get data off. I would just try that. If a regular PATA controller doesn't see the drive, ...

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