Migrate RAID-1 from Areca to LSI

[aitoribarra]

Hi,

Before, I've used RAID-1's on LSI/Dell Perc's as a way of doing off-site backup (pull out one drive, insert replacement, RAID rebuilds, and the drive you pulled can be taken off site and be read as a single drive from a PC).

Soon, I will need to migrate some RAID-1's from an Areca 1680ix-24 to an LSI card, probably 9280 4i4e. Will the LSI pick up the Areca RAID-1's, or could it read a single drive from an Areca RAID-1 and create a new RAID-1 from it?

Thanks,

Aitor

 

[odditory]

No, sir. You'll need to back up the data, create the new array and copy the data to it.

 

[aitoribarra]

Well, apart from the boot volume, I've already got a backup, as this is half of a replicated iSCSI SAN (Starwind). Reinstalling Windows etc won't be too much hassle. But doing a restore onto virgin arrays, that's going to take hours, as several TB will have to be restored. If I could pick up the RAID-1s, then only the changed data would get copied (by the SAN software), and that's going to be just a few GB. Oh well.

Thanks!