I am wanting to setup an unraid server on my desktop which currently houses all of my data. My windows 7 PC currently has a raid 1 array that had a drive failure. The RMAed drive showed up and windows has had trouble syncing both drives. I'm thinking of turning this Windows 7 desktop computer into a unraid server to use as my network storage for my laptops, ipads, and andriod XBMC TV front-ends. My issue is, every walk-through that I've found is how to transfer this data through a network. I have 3 drives that I want to use:
Drive A : 1 x 1TB - current houses all my backed up DVDs (95% full)
Drive B : 1 x 2TB - my working RAID 1 device that houses photos, backups from laptops, music, and various other stuff (Most important drive)
Drive C : 1 x 2TB - My newest drive that is failing to sync up with my existing RAID.
My thinking is this:
1) setup unraid using a blank thumb-drive and Drive C.
2) Run some checks on Drive C to ensure it's viability.
3) Plug in Drive B and use MC to copy the data from B to C.
4) Delete enough data on B to copy A to B.
5) Reformat drive A and add it to unRaid
6) Copy backed up data on Drive B back to Drive A
7) Reformat Drive B and add to unRaid as parity drive
Is this a safe way to do this? If not, I'm unsure how I'm going to use unRaid without buying a 2nd system or more Hard Drives. All of which would exceed my budget at the moment.