How will changing mobo affect RAID?

snowdog · 24 Sep 2006 at 16:52

Hello,

Im perhaps changing my mainboard soon to a asus p5wdh deluxe but atm i have a raid0 array on my asus p5ld2, how can i switch mainboard w/o losing data on my raid array, its too much data for me to copy to my other discs.
Will changing mobo erase the raid stuff, as in raid bios when making a raid volume it says ill lose all data...

Full details of specs ( hdd&mobo anyhow) atm:

Asus p5ld2
4xsataII raid compatible
1x ide100
2x ide 133

1x250gb ide
1x160gb ide
1x300gb sata
2x250gb sata RAID 0

im worried about losing my data on the 2x250...

snowdog · 25 Sep 2006 at 14:51

dont have anythign to back it up to
unless i spend 2x 60 quid for anotehr 2x250 gb.

snowdog · 25 Sep 2006 at 16:47

No i dont have a dvdrw only a dvd-rom(dvdrw died bout a week ago and dont feel like replacing it, burning of 400 ish gig of data will take ages anyhow so not really into that), its all games, series, music and films, anyhow so no one has experience with changing mainboards with a raid array? As i want to hear it prefferably from someone who did something like this be4...
Also i cant put data on other drives because they're all practicly full, most of them just 1 or 2% free space...

To madwelsh: tbh i never ever backed up my data, i didnt have any dead hdd's in last 5 years or more, and im replacing (cloning old to new) my hdd's about every 2 years, selling the old...

Sry i realize im kinda stupid, but i just want to know if its actually possible for me to change mainboard w/o messing up raid, etc...

snowdog · 26 Sep 2006 at 16:49

500 gb for 120- quid cheap? thats very expensive for me, also whats wrong with raid 0 if data is important, i dont think a hdd made a few months ago will die anytime soon, it are seagates 7200.10 btw.
Anyhow i suppose ill be buying a 100 pack of dvd's and a dvdrw

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I mean i have the prob of each time when i buy a new hdd, it gets full in like 2 months...
Shame tho if thats the only way, mainobard raid controllers should have soem option to just enable raid if its already there...
Also shame BRD is so expensive, i'd love to burn 100 gigs ( quad layer blu-ray) in one burn.