RAID-0 and RAID-1 (and the other RAID levels) can be hardware-based or software based. RAID-1 is mirroring two disks together presented as one targets reliability. RAID-0 is striping two disks together presented as one bigger disk targets I/O performance. Search for (other) discussions of using the DiskUtil tool and enabling disk mirroring for various of the previous discussions.īut if something goes wrong with the on-line conversion, a bug or a power drop-out or a disk glitch or or. If you're feeling lucky, you can potentially on-line. Officially, yes, you need to off-load to a backup, configure the RAID-1, and reload onto the mirrorset.
