Transferring RAID Arrays between Motherboards?

LeoPheonix · 2 Sep 2007 at 14:29

I am considering creating a 2TB Raid on a Asus Blitz Formula probablt RAID 10 or 5.

My question is, if i decide to update my motherboard will i need to reformat this Raid on the new board?

I currently use a highpoint ide raid card which i have transferred from machine to machine with all data intact. Of course this may not be as easy with the card?

Cob · 2 Sep 2007 at 14:37

Are you intending to use the card or the motherboards onboard RAID controller?

You should only have to reinstall the RAID if you are changing the RAID controller.

LeoPheonix · 2 Sep 2007 at 14:41

I was hoping to use the motherboards controller as my Highpoint is IDE. So it sounds like I will have to rebuild the RAID which would be creat a single point of failure in the Motherboard.

Is there any performance gains from using a dedicated RAID card?

Cob · 2 Sep 2007 at 14:48

I assume you're switching from IDE to SATA? I'm pretty sure you'll need to re-build going from the IDE card to the Intel SATA RAID controller.

And yeah a dedicated card will give better results, tho decent ones can be quite expensive.

Tbh this question would be better suited to the Hard Drives forum as they'll have a good bit of knowledge on the subject.

LeoPheonix · 2 Sep 2007 at 14:50

cool, thanks.

This has now been posted in the Hard Drives forum

BUFF · 2 Sep 2007 at 23:19

Intel seems to be pretty good about carrying over an array created on 1 Intel controller to a later 1.