Moving Raid 0 to New Mobo

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 10:30

Hi all,

I've just upgraded to a New Mobo and CPU.

On my old setup I was using 1x80gb drive for the op system, and 2x120gp raid 0 drives as general storage.

Can I get my new setup to recognise my old Raid? The old setup used a promise 376 controller, however the new one uses a different type..not sure of the name atm.

Old Setup was Chaintech Zenith Mobo / Athlon XP 2500
New Setup is ASRock 939Dual SATA-2 / Athlon 64 3700+

If I've gotta re-setup the old board and transfer the data I'm gonna cry!! :eek:

Fred

smids · 7 Apr 2006 at 10:37

Get the tissues.

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 11:06

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Rambaud · 7 Apr 2006 at 12:20

One possible way to do this, but you need another hard drive of greater capacity than the data stored on your RAID array.

On your old mobo, you need Acronis true Image or Ghost (or similar sofware) to clone the RAID array to the extra hard drive.

Build the RAID array on your new mobo, then clone the contents of the extra hard drive to it.

smids · 7 Apr 2006 at 12:33

Yeah, that's a good way - what I would do personally if I didn't want to have to do a fresh install. Either way though, you'll have to get the old one up and running I'm afraid. Unless the RAID controller is exactly the same, you cannot usually use one RAID and port it over to another.

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 12:53

Thanks for the info

I managed to salvage one of my old cases I had laying about.

I've put in an old PSU I had, plus the old mobo/cpu. Once I get this setup I'll transfer the raid drives across then transfer the data to an external HDD which I luckily bought last week

Wish I had transferred the data before I swapped out the Mobo though :mad:

cheers,
Fred

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 13:05

Was just thinking about possible future setup.

Since RAID 1 is just mirroring drives, would a change of controller still mean you couldn't access the data on either drive?

Seems a bit scary that if your mobo screws up you can't recover data

Skilldibop · 7 Apr 2006 at 14:16

mirroring you might get away with. However it'd be far far safer to just ghost the contents.

Fred · 7 Apr 2006 at 14:40

Seems like the safest option would be not to use RAID at all

Skilldibop · 7 Apr 2006 at 14:50

Well RAID is predomenantly used for speed and smoothness of operation, not data security.

Raid 1 and 5 are great for keeping things ticking over when a disk fails, but no substitute for a regular backup.

If you want safe, backup. If you want fast/ non stop service, RAID.