RAID arrays -> is the system universal?

Heofz · 29 Apr 2006 at 16:42

I was wondering this:

I have 2 drives in RAID 0, using Si3114 raid controller.

Is a RAID system so basic such that I could just plug these hard drives in a different raid controller, configure it to have have RAID 0 with the same cluster sizes and it would instantly work?

Heofz · 29 Apr 2006 at 21:29

lol

would anyone else happen to know at all?

Heofz · 2 May 2006 at 09:59

johnnyboy32 said:
far as I'm aware (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm not) The array data is written to the MBR of the disk so a different controller should be able to pick it up.
Hope this helps.

thanks mate, tis what I needed to hear

Heofz · 2 May 2006 at 18:17

Datamonkey said:
i recreated the raid, which destroys your data in the process.

are you sure about that? If that were so, how come whenever I configured 2 drives to be in a raid array the raid management utility thinggy sets the array up instantaneously?

Surely if it actually modifies the drives there would be at least some sort of delay and some noise would come from the hard drives themselves?