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Question about RAID Arrays and Upgrading

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cruz610

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So I was shipping my computer back from school VIA UPS. Yes, I know, first big mistake there, but there were no other shippers available:( To my surprise when I opened my box up at home everything inside it was just gone. Smashed to bits and pieces. Apparently the hard drive racks dislodged from their positions sometime during shipping and had a heyday on the rest of the internals. So great. Whats even better is that my hard drives were in a RAID0 array. Lucky me. Fortunately this was only for two of the four total hdds. My question becomes this. Is it possible that if I replace the mobo with the SAME type of mobo that my data will not be lost, or if I upgrade to a newer version of the mobo that it wont be gone? I had an IC7G and everything was hooked up via SATA. Or am I now SOL and have lost 300+gb of files? :(
 
two important questions:

- which raid controller where you hooked up to? The southbridge intel raid controller or the Silicon Image controller?

- do you know which two of the four drives where in the array?
 
and secure a backup HDD to rescue the data to
in the event your able to access it
dont trust those drives again for quite awhile

normally when I hear this tale
its the heatsink bustin loose

luckily with just 4 drives in combination of 2
the number of possible combinations is only
AB AC AD
BA BC BD
CA CB CD
DA DB DC

try sorting out 6 HDDs on 6 channels
(720 combinations) :p
 
I believe the RAID array was hooked up to the Silicon controller - is that going to be better or worse for me? As for the HDDs themselves, fortunately I labeled them when I installed them so I know which two go together :)
 
I have been able to recover RAID 0 SCSI and IDE arrays when the controller has failed without too much trouble, I've never done a SATA recovery but I doubt it would be too much trouble. As long as you use the same RAID controller I'd bet it will work as long as neither drive is damaged. Most drive manufacturers have non-destructive drive testing software to allow you to do a quick eval on those drives before you buy replacement hardware.

PS, just so you know. Never, never, never ship a PC via UPS. They could destroy a brick packed in foam. You'd be better off packing it in your luggage and taking your chances with the airport baggage gorillas. (No I don't really recommend this either. ;) )
 
I just don't understand why you guys have so many problems with UPS. They've not broken a single part or machine I've had shipped through them.
 
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