Existing RAID 0 onto new controller. Possible?

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Hi,

Basically, I have a mobo with 2xsata connectors, which I had 2x120gb drives on raid 0.

I am installing 2x500gb drives on raid 0 as a replacement, but want to be able to copy the data from the old 2 disks, so I bought a pci controller as a temporary basis so I can have all 4 disks installed, but I obviously want the 2 news disks on the on board sata controller.

Will I be able to just connect up the 2 old disks onto the new controller and it will just recognise the striped array or will it want to reset it all and I'll lose all my data?

Thanks a lot.
 
As far as I'm aware if the controller is different you will lose your array.

So I doubt you could copy to a new RAID on a controller card, then plug those disks into the MB controller.

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Jokester said:
As far as I'm aware if the controller is different you will lose your array.

So I doubt you could copy to a new RAID on a controller card, then plug those disks into the MB controller.

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If the PCI card and your motherboard use the same RAID controller you can get away with it, if not you'll have to do some fiddling.

This works in my head, though thats no gaurentee :D

Copy your 240Gb raid 0 array to one of the 500GB drives on the PCI card on its own, not in RAID.

Then wipe the 2x120Gb drives, remove the 500GB drive from the PCI card, and connect it to the mobo.

Copy the image on the 500Gb drive onto the 2x120 GB RAID0 drives on the PCI card.

Wipe the 500GB drive, set both of them up in RAID 0 on the motherboard controller, copy across from the 2x120Gb drives.
 
cheers for that, I reckon that probably would work.

Just realised I posted this in the wrong forum, meant it to be in hard disks :(

I've formatted the 2x500gb drives and set them up as raid 0, and finished installing windows on them now.

I also had a 180gb IDE drive with my music on in too.

So at this stage I've had this idea:

1.put the IDE drive in, and copy the 180gb over to one of the partitions of the 2x500gb array

2.put the old 2x120gb array back in, and copy data across to the 180gb IDE.

3.put the new array in and copy the data on the IDE disk onto the new array.

-Repeat steps until done.

:)
 
It's taken nearly 12 hours to copy 160gb from my old array onto the IDE disk and back onto the new one.

Painful experience...
 
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