On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:13:52 pm Matt wrote: > Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two > drives in a similiar way? If so what not too expensive 2 port > hardware raid controller do you reccommend and how do you do it? 3ware 9500S; can be had used and NOS (New Old Stock) on eBay cheap, and has great Linux support. Performance isn't stellar, but is adequate. I'm looking right now at a 'buy it now' on an 8 port for $59 free shipping. I see an older 8006-2LP (used) with a starting bid of $9.99. I am using one I got a couple of years ago NOS off eBay; it's the 4 port 9500S, and it has been in production for two years at this point. You can clone the single drive to a RAID logical drive just as if the RAID was a single drive. You just need to make sure the 3ware's drivers are in your initrd; either put the module there before the clone or using a live boot CD.