Need to clone/create new RAID

[Obee1]

Hi all

 

I have a server that is failing, resulting in one hard drive being replaced last week. It then BSOD three times at the end of last week.

Subsequently I need to rebuild Windows and would like to move everything to four brand new disks.

 

I am having loads of trouble backing up due to the size - approx 1TB. My cloud backup seems to be faltering/taking forever, so I have tried manual backups etc, which are working somewhat but fail with long filepaths etc on some files.

 

So two questions:

 

1)does anyone have any advice on being able to load the four hard drives into something and be able to copy the data across onto new Windows install?

 

2)Additionally does anyone know if I replace all four hard drives and build a new RAID whether I can reinsert the original four hard drives to perform manual backups at a later date if required? ie if something is not backed up somewhere and I build a new Windows system and someone reports that something is missing if I can then power down, reinsert the old hard drives and manually copy the data onto a portable drive then switch back to new, power up and copy the data onto new hard drives??

 

Any help with this headache greatly appreciated.

 

Happy half-term!