Moving RAID-0 to replacement MB

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n00bie to RAID here, thanks in advance....

I have a new system and the board is being replaced. Can I move the pair of drives to the new board without issue? I will of course use the same port<>drive config.

Many thanks.
 
Hmm.... I am thinking not, though if the chipset (and thus drivers) are the same then... maybe.

Raid 0 is a stripe, probably done with software using the MB drivers. It seems unlikely that you can move to a different motherboard and ask a software Raid 0 to survive. Backup (if the old board still lives) and restore to the new raid.
 
Thank you.

I need to decide what to do. I may go with a simpler cheaper motherboard and run OS X on it anyway, and just put RAID on hold for awhile. I have 6400AAKS drives which are pretty quick on their own, especially under OS X. I will take your advice and backup/restore w/ AcronisTI if I decide to stick with Vista.
 
Although, RAID on OS X doesn't seem too daunting.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76404

I was/am seriously underwhelmed at Intel's Matrix Storage Manager under Vista. I was like, "Is that really all they got?" The fact that the ICH10 controller showed up as ICH9 in the software didn't exactly inspire confidence either. And losing S.M.A.R.T. info on the RAID'd drives, bugged me to no end.
 
Is the board identical? If so you should be alright. If it uses a different chipset or RAID implementation I'd bet on the answer being no.
 
I imagine it would be identical if I decide to go with direct replacement. Maybe a newer BIOS but I doubt it. It was purchased 3 weeks ago.
 
bing said:
I imagine it would be identical if I decide to go with direct replacement. Maybe a newer BIOS but I doubt it. It was purchased 3 weeks ago.
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I didn't understand that this was a repair (yes, you did say that), replacement with identical MB. In that case, the raid would almost certainly survive.
 
All the RAID configuration is stored on the disks themselves, when using ordinary onboard RAID. So when moving to a replica motherboard, it should work out of the box provided you have the controller set as RAID and not SATA/IDE in the system BIOS.
 
Just a followup. I decided to switch from the DFI LP JR to the ASUS P5E-VM HDMI. I got all the data off the RAID volume prior to pulling the m/b. On a whim I plugged the drives into the new m/b and to my amazement Vista booted right up. I had some reconfiguration to do getting it set up and ended up moving the disks to different ports, Vista booted no issue. I didn't pay attention to the order of the disks at all, though I may have gottten lucky?

Installed the ASUS drivers, messed w/ Device Manager a bit by deleting an unknown device and such, and I had to reinstall portions of Networking to get that going, but otherwise it seems rock solid. Status for the array is OK in both the firmware at startup and under Vista in the Matrix Manager.

Ran IntelBurnTest for 8 hours error-free while encoding a VMC file to h264 with MCEBuddy on the new system. I'm going to wipe the disks and install OS X, hopefully in RAID as well.

The ASUS has the ICH9R controller, the DFI has the ICH10R. Although, I do remember seeing the Intel software report the controller as ICH9R on the DFI board...... :p

As an aside, the old board struggled to get past 3.5Ghz with a lot of time devoted to testing and tweaking. New one is at 3.6Ghz with same CPU (E8400) and memory (mushkin 996533,) after 5 minutes total in BIOS. Temps are about the same at idle/load tho there are some variables in the mix (higher clock now, used proper (less!) amount of thermal goo this time, much colder ambient,,,,, etc.)
 
I do it with a PCI sata controller, install card, load drivers, windows happy, move array reboot windows happy, delete all the MB drivers, video dribers etc, and move card/array to new MB. Powerup and presto, windows sees it and then load new drivers. Once done, move array to new MB sata controller.
 
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