[SOLVED] Move data from RAID 0 array to 2 seperate HDDs

[BigGeezer]

So now for context, I know this is a really stupid idea, but honestly these drives were super cheap and I don't really care about them. One were harvested from a broken laptop, the other one was bought on Craigslist for like $15. Both are 1TB drives that run in RAID 0. It's using the built-in raid function on my mobo (MSI Z170-A Pro)

At one point it kept failing to delete a file on the drive while in Windows. I tried to restart and on the raid configurator it said one of my drives were on "Error occurred". I just went on Intel Rapid Storage Technology and marked the drive as normal, restarted again and the drive was all normal again.

I feel like its an issue with the RAID array, and not the actual drive. Even though there are no actual system files on the drive, earlier my system hard locked and the error came back on my configurator. I decided to mark it as normal again, but I was wondering if there is an easy way to delete the array and get the data onto the 2 separate drives. I don't have anything valuable on the drive, I have good backups and I don't even have anything other than games on that array.

 

[Alabalcho]

You don't need two drives to backup a disk volume.

 

[BigGeezer]

You don't need two drives to backup a disk volume.

I want tho back up the data onto the same drives tho, not another one.

 

[CountMike]

I want tho back up the data onto the same drives tho, not another one.

A backup to same disk is not a backup at all. If you want to split your RAID you have to backup data to another disk first at least temporarily.
Raid 0 is just like one drive with double the platters and heads and data is all over the place, parts of one file could be spread at 2 disks.
Once you break it up data will not be accessible.

 

[BigGeezer]

A backup to same disk is not a backup at all. If you want to split your RAID you have to backup data to another disk first at least temporarily.
Raid 0 is just like one drive with double the platters and heads and data is all over the place, parts of one file could be spread at 2 disks.
Once you break it up data will not be accessible.

Yeah thats what I thought too, but I wondered if there was a way to break up the array onto the 2 drives without moving the data to the other drive. Thats the whole point.

Also, I used the term backup in the quoted post since the post I replied to said backup, and it seems he misunderstood my post, so I tried to use the same terminology he used.

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah thats what I thought too, but I wondered if there was a way to break up the array onto the 2 drives without moving the data to the other drive. Thats the whole point.

Also, I used the term backup in the quoted post since the post I replied to said backup, and it seems he misunderstood my post, so I tried to use the same terminology he used.

You cannot break a RAID 0 like that.
Your only way forward is to copy that data to some other drive, kill the RAID array and format those two drives so they are individuals.