Hi everyone, Tomorrow I see on my FreeBSD interface that my raid 1 is degraded because one disc is failed. My mainboard a gigabyte j1900 support hot swap on Sata ports. Then i change the failed drive (hot swapped) and i connect a new clean formatted disc without partitions. The new clean...

So I want to know if this is possible and whether or not it's a good idea. So let's say I have a two drive mirrored array. Can I attach a third drive to the array, sync all the data so it becomes a three drive mirror, then detach the third drive so I store it separately as backup? Would this...