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Swapping Raid 1 from one computer to another

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I currently have raid 1 set up on my ICH9R intel controller, and am moving to X79 which also supports raid 1.

How should I go about moving over to this? Can I just plug in the two drives, set up the array in the bios if I can, install the intel drivers, and manage the array through there again?

I currently have windows installed on a velociraptor, but will be installing to an SSD in my new build... so the data on the array shouldn't be changing at all. Don't want to set up this array and find out all my data has been wiped.

EDIT: I just plugged in the drives, intel raid manager on windows detected it right away and seems to be all working! Performing a parity check just in case.
 
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theres a very good chance you can just move the drives.

however, to be precautious, i would take a backup image, that way if it doesnt work, you can reinitilize the drives, and restore from the backup.
 
Aren't motherboard Raid controllers basically "software" Raids? Compared to the official "hardware" RAID cards out there that cost upwards of $400?

Fortunately, you have a RAID 1 so each drive has the information you need should it not carry over. AFAIK, the motherboard is the one that set the original RAID. If you switch MB, you are changing controller and thus you will have to create a new RAID on the new controller.

That MIGHT not be much of a problem unless the new controller sees any new Raid and initializes the drives at the start. Bye Bye data.

Always back up your data, even if you have a RAID 5 configuration.
 
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