• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

RAID Controller for SSDs

B

BluDog

n00b
Joined
Dec 27, 2011
Messages
52
Anyone know of the best RAID Controller for SSDs? I am talking about a separate controller from those the come via chips on mbs because when one moves the SSDs to a newly constructed computer I don't believe it's possible to utilize the software on the disks. This means deleting and reinstalling everything. Since I have roughly 300 gbytes of necessary software I don't enjoy having to reinstall all the software as it can takes days of work to accomplish this.

Thanks for any info.

/* Phil */
 
A standalone RAID controller will not help you in what you wish to use it for. Software will always needed to be installed on a per computer basis unless you image/backup the drives with a backup program that can restore to different hardware, such as Acronis True Image 2013.
 
Well if we're talking Windows you definitely can move from hardware to hardware without too much trouble, I've been doing it for more than ten years now.
 
LSI SAS + Fastpath. Although at > $500 US this may be a overkill depending on your intended application.
 
Thanks, Aesma. When you refer to Windows are you referring to controller & software that comes with many motherboards? My reason for asking is that I thought when one moved from machine to machine using the controller in one machine with a particular mb that the newer machine with a different mb would not accept the RAID HDrives that one had used in the previous machine. With my current RAID setup on my main machine which uses a HighPoint Rocket Raid controller all I have to do is move the card, and the disks to a new machine with a new windows motherboard and cpu and it will boot right up. Are you telling me one can do that with the motherboard controllers?

Aesma said:
Well if we're talking Windows you definitely can move from hardware to hardware without too much trouble, I've been doing it for more than ten years now.
Click to expand...
 
No I'm talking about Microsoft Windows. It's true that if you go from a controller to another it will not work right away, but there are ways to work around that. Like ilal2ielli said software now exists that will help the transition. Also, if you go from Intel to Intel or from AMD to AMD it usually works without doing anything.
 
BluDog said:
Thanks, Aesma. When you refer to Windows are you referring to controller & software that comes with many motherboards? My reason for asking is that I thought when one moved from machine to machine using the controller in one machine with a particular mb that the newer machine with a different mb would not accept the RAID HDrives that one had used in the previous machine. With my current RAID setup on my main machine which uses a HighPoint Rocket Raid controller all I have to do is move the card, and the disks to a new machine with a new windows motherboard and cpu and it will boot right up. Are you telling me one can do that with the motherboard controllers?
Click to expand...

You can move the drives and the data will remain if you use the same RAID controller, but if you installed software to those drives and performed a new install of the OS, the software will not work property as the necessary OS links/registry bits won't be there.

Best to invest in cloning software to make transitions easier.
 
I would probably be better off using something similar to what I currently have on this machine where I have moved the 4 hard drives, two pairs of Raid1, and the HighPoint RocketRaid controller several times to various machines with no problem. I will look into separate controller cards. Thanks.
 
Thanks Limp for considering that though I know about OS's as I did a lot of programming years ago lol and often deal with the registry in Windows. If you or anyone comes across a decent relatively inexpensive RAID Controller other than the RocketRaid which isn't bad though it's certainly not the fastest, I would appreciate learning about it.


/* Phil */
 
Like drescherjm said for an SSD you need a very expensive solution or it will have ill effects on SSD performance.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top