Interchangeable RAID

[georgiosd]

Hi,

My motherboard died last night - I've just posted it back for the RMA.
The turnaround time (this is not OcUK) is about 7 days so I'm thinking of going for a new mobo anyway while I wait so that I can work on my PC.

The broken mobo is a Gigabyte P55M-UD2 and I had configured a 4-disk RAID5 array - if I buy another mobo, say Asus Extreme III with the same chipset (P55) - will the RAID just plug and play or will I lose all my data?

Thanks
Georgios

 

[TheMightyDude]

Well if you connect them to the same type controller then maybe, how ever Windows will try and install all the new devices on that new board which may cause issues, however you may be able to do it this way to get your data off, don't quote me on this though.

Just try it and check what it says in the Raid Utility in the BIOS, make sure the ID of the drive all match up or you may/will loose your data.

Worst case it will think you have changed more than 1 drive causing it to try and reinitialize the drives resulting in loosing your data.

Its upto you.

Id wait to see if anyone else replies first, I wouldn't want you to loose all your data due to my reply.

 

[rpstewart]

will the RAID just plug and play or will I lose all my data?

Maybe.

I've seen arrays successfully moved from controller to controller but I've also seen arrays fail to move successfully between identical controllers so it's by no means guaranteed.

Personally I'd try it but be prepared to have to restore everything from backups.