Building new rig and Raid 0

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I am thinking about building a new rig, but I am concerned because I have two drives which are Raid 0 (Striping).

I assume its not as a simple as unplugging the drives from the old motherboard and plugging them into the new motherboard and setting it up for striping?

Can anyone offer any insight to this?
 
I have never done it before (as i don't use RAID) so don't take my advice as 100% but from what i've found you'll need to start from scratch.

Are you still going ahead with the new rig?

What type of build are you thinking? Budget?
 
Well your reply got me thinking! And yes I do want to make a new rig since I want to do a triple monitor setup with the release of BF4.

So any rig recommendations :)?

Budget not a big issue Say 1 to 1.5k.

EDIT: I have some bits already such as 750W power supply and hard drives.

I take it my P5B Deluxe and Q6600 along with the RAM will go onto MM?
 
I have a few things in mind (ill spec you at lunch time)...

Is the triple monitor setup a must or would you be happier with a 144hz/120hz screen or a single 1440p display? I prefer this route as its less hassle but better results than 1080p, it is also easier to run.. :)

Yeah you old bit will go well on the MM, they are still quite popular.
 
I no longer use raid myself, but if you are moving the array from one similar controller to another (e.g. Intel to Intel), there may be no need to break the array. My old RAID 0 array moved seamlessly between a board with ICHR8 and an ICHR10 board, this was a few years ago mind. I just plugged it in and set the correct ports to RAID mode, and the motherboard worked out the rest.

Edit: whatever approach you take, be sure to backup your data first just in case :)
 
zola25 said:
I no longer use raid myself, but if you are moving the array from one similar controller to another (e.g. Intel to Intel), there may be no need to break the array. My old RAID 0 array moved seamlessly between a board with ICHR8 and an ICHR10 board, this was a few years ago mind. I just plugged it in and set the correct ports to RAID mode, and the motherboard worked out the rest.

Edit: whatever approach you take, be sure to backup your data first just in case :)
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Good advice will do this I think.

But to be honest, I dont think its too much trouble to break up the RAID (its a games drive).

So worst case scenario will problably format them.
Do I need to "unRAID" before formating or can I just unplug from old rig, plug in new rig and format/RAID 0?
 
Doomedspeed said:
I have a few things in mind (ill spec you at lunch time)...

Is the triple monitor setup a must or would you be happier with a 144hz/120hz screen or a single 1440p display? I prefer this route as its less hassle but better results than 1080p, it is also easier to run.. :)

Yeah you old bit will go well on the MM, they are still quite popular.
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Great, many thanks buddy, look forward to your proposal.

Triple monitor would be great but I am just wondering about this whole 120/144Hz debate at the moment. Is this really that much better?

Is 120hz/140hz @ 1440 display not possible? Or is it too expensive?

FYI I have limited desk space (looking at around 55cm length for each monitor.
Ideally 23/24" for triple monitor.
Otherwise whatever size for single monitor.
 
For triple monitor 24" is the most common. Personally i prefer one big screen. Less problems. :)

120hz/144hz vs 1440p/1600p is personal taste really, in essence 120hz/144hz is smoother and 1440p/1600p is clearer.

Personally i prefer 120/144hz but either way is a good upgrade. :)

I don't think 120hz/144hz 1440p montiros exsist..
 
I moved from a z67 to z77 board (intel controllers) and the raid just "worked", I had backed everything up expecting otherwise so it was a surprise :)
 
I don't profess to know that much about the inner workings of different RAID controller models, but RAID 0 isn't exactly that complicated and usually when moving between controllers then as long as they are from the same family they can sort it out. I.E I have moved RAID 5 arrays between Nforce 6xx/7xx boards, between H55 to Z68 to Z87 boards, etc. I would expect that from a P5B to a modern Intel socket would go fine.
 
lets start high shall we? :)

You like red dont you? :)

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We can cut back on many things though ill explain myself a little bit:

4770k can be dropped to the 4670k, though (for some reason) the 4770k performs better with Dual cards than the 4670k. (with a single card the chips are equal).

Daul 280X's instead of 1 x 290X or 7990 ddue to the 290X's and 7990s being loud.. We can always get round this by geting a sound dampened case (but this will increase temps) or waiting for 290X's with aftermarket coolers to be realeased.

Added a PSU incase your current unit isn't upto the job, what is your PSU spec?

We could change the case for a 300R but then you couldn't use the H100 you'd have to use a H80 (save even more money)

As said above, H100 can be changed for H80 or equivilanf air cooler.

thoughts?
 
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