breaking a mirror array

[zooankski]

I have all my important stuff on a 1TB mirror array, however i am going to rebuild a new pc and want to move it all over. Do i need to break the array and if i do will drives show seperately and still have all my data on? or can i simply create a new mirror when connected to the new motherboard and everything will stay intact?
Also if i just unplugged a single mirror drive-would the other still be visable in windows?
I just do not want to lose anything and never reverted a mirror back before

 

[droyden]

In the past it depended on the controller, some used weird software for their raid as its wasnt proper 'hardware' raid. What mobo are you going from and what to?
TBH if it was me, I'd buy a 1TB drive, copy all I needed then flog it afterwards. Take the hit of a few quid for piece of mind (and hassle!)

 

[para08]

when I got my dodgy sandybride board RMA'd a few months back for the new B3 revison the new board broke my mirror array for some reason. anyway I installed win7 (ssd) and plugged my two mirror drives in and windows only recognised one drive for some reason. everything was still intact though just how it was before. so word of warning you might have to recreate the array. but you shouldn't lose anything.