I've currently got a 1 TB RAID 1 running on Seagate drives. If you've used Seagate much you know they die alot...I've had to swap three times in the past six months.
I've got 4 brand new Western Digital RE4's that I'm looking to setup in a RAID 1+0. Rather than arduously, manually, backing up all my data and resinstalling windows and dozens of programs I'd like to use a windows backup image to transfer everything in one go using an external drive as intermediary.
What I'm wondering is if there are any problems or pitfalls I should expect? Has anyone actually done this, and does it go as smoothly as you would think it should? Does using a RAID cause any special issues (same mobo controller for before and after) or does the 'virtual' -ness of the drive insulate that aspect?
Would it be better (cleaner, healthier for my pc) to just do a fresh windows installation?