Consolidating an SSD and a raid set to a single ssd

[daytripper]

I folks. I did a search but didn't find anything that actually made clear what I should do here.  I built my system quite a few years ago. Wanted an ssd for the operating system, but ssd's were rather expensive then.  ($200 US for a 120gb)  So I  put Win7 on the 120gb ssd, and raid 0'd three 1tb hard drives.  Works well, but as the years have gone by the ssd has gotten rather full, and I realize now that a 3tb raid array is WAY more storage than an average user like me needs.  (wry grin)

 

It's a software raid using Win7. So what would be the best way to consolidate both drives onto a single ssd, one large enough to have plenty of headroom?  It's fine if my current c:drive and the e:drive (raid set) have their own partitions, I'm used to that anyways. Can I just back them up seperately using Acronis, and then restore them each to the new drive?

 

Thanks for listening.

 

 

 

[Waco]

So let me make sure I've got this straight.

 

You have a small 120 GB SSD as your boot drive along with a 3 TB (software) RAID 0 data drive.

You want to consolidate the data on the two drives onto a single, larger, SSD.

 

Unless I'm being 'tarded, which can happen, I think your strategy of a separate backup of each partition, then restoring onto the new drive (assuming there's enough space) is a good idea.

[El_Capitan]

^ I think that's what he's looking for.

 

Backup from (example):

120GB SSD - 100GB's worth of data

3TB RAID 0 - Let's say, 500GB's worth of data

 

Restore to (example):

1TB SSD - Create two separate partitions. Restore the 100GB's worth of data into one partition. Restore the 500GB's worth of data into second partition. Merge both partitions into one (if that's what you want), using something like EaseUS Partition Master.