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Save raid0 drives?

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sechkie

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So, I had a raid-0 setup with two 250gb seagates.. My question is, is it possible to just move the drives over to a new motherboard and plug them in and still have the same data on the drives? Mind you, I'm not installing windows on the raid drives, im just using them for storage.

Oh and the new motherboard was basically a new build so i had to reinstall windows.

edit: Looking at the drives in partition magic since i was unsuccessful in setting up the raid it says its all unallocated and nothing is used. I'm assuming its all gone. :(
 
depends on the raid setup. A WinXP or Linux OS-based software raid is rather portable. For a "onboard controller" based raid it is hard to give a definite answer, since it may or may not work, depending on quite a few variables, such as firmware revision, brand etc. of the controller .
 
It's possible, but like drizzt says I don't think it's reliable.

If you want to use the drives on the other machine, I'd just move them and get them running in their new home from scratch -- then restore the content from your backup.
 
thanks for the replies... It makes sense that my previous raid which ran on an ALI based mobo wouldn't work if i just moved it over to a nvidia based one. guess ill just have to make a new raid.
 
Because the data is backed up. Or because it's easily recreatable, or replaceable. That's why.
 
i was under the impression that raid-1 was for backup. Basically i used it for storage just to get a feel for setting up a raid array and partly because I didnt have a floppy drive so I would be able to install windows on there. And yes i do know about slipstreaming them onto an install disk but I havent got around to doing it.
 
sechkie said:
i was under the impression that raid-1 was for backup. Basically i used it for storage just to get a feel for setting up a raid array and partly because I didnt have a floppy drive so I would be able to install windows on there. And yes i do know about slipstreaming them onto an install disk but I havent got around to doing it.
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raid != backup

raid = redundancy and uptime
 
I thought that if you lost a drive in a RAID0 array you lost all the data?
Isn't RAID1 or RAID5 for backup and redundnancy?
Now I am confused...
 
RAID-0 gives you the full space of the drive for 'storage'. The problem is that you double your change for drive failure. The most common cause of RAID-0 data loss, however, is data corruption. This is particularly the case when using low end RAID cards. That would give you something like 6x the chances of losing all of your data on those drives. As long as that doesn't bother you, the data is backed up, easily restorable and this won't cause you any pain then use RAID-0. In reality though, drives are cheap and RAID-0 isn't worth it.

RAID-1 and RAID-5 give you redundancy. RAID-1 mirrors both of the drives. This cuts your storage space in half, but if one drive dies, you still have all of the data and you don't need to restore it from a backup. RAID-5 stripes the data across drives. It gives you more storage space as only one drive is lost for the parity, but it also protects you from a drive failure.

Given that the OP doesn't really know much about RAID, then RAID-1 it is. The situation that MikeBlas is talking about is data that is backed up, doesn't change much (the backups contain most of the data), is easily recreatable, downtime is not an issue and data loss isn't either. In personal computing not many people back up that well. Those who do probably wouldn't care about throwing in another 2 drives to get mirroring and parity. Professionally, people would do the same.
 
Lou Cypher said:
I thought that if you lost a drive in a RAID0 array you lost all the data?
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Nope. You just restore the data from your backup.
 
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