Is it possible to migrate a HDD RAID 0 to an SSD?

ArisVer

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Currently I have a RAID 0 consisting of two spinners. I bought an SSD and I want to know if there is a way of migrating the OS (W7) instead of making a new instalation.
 

Ketchup

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Within the OS, it should be fine if you are cloning and have the space for everything.
 

impingu1984

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I did exactly this when I upgraded to a SSD from to WD Raptors in RAID 0.

You can clone the RAID Array to your SSD and then boot from your SSD. I used Macrium Reflect (Free Edition) to do that within Windows 7.

Couple of things to note before you clone.

You need check your AHCI drivers are enable cos otherwise your SSD (which should be set to AHCI in BIOS) won't boot, as will be trying to boot using your RAID drivers.

The answer on the link below will explain.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/changing-from-raid-to-ahci/4c94f678-6bd1-48a6-b871-8872c841023a

You could leave your SSD set as RAID in the BIOS and then boot from the SSD and switch it around to AHCI drivers, shut down and change your SSD to AHCI in BIOS and it should boot, that way your drives for the RAID can be used to fall back on if it goes wrong (ie just boot up your RAID array and start again).

You will need to tweak Windows 7 to be more friendly with your SSD, Samsungs Magician software will do this in the OS optimizations Section, (if your using a Samsung SSD of course)

Hope that makes sense cos I've probably not explained it very well. It's pretty simply.
 

impingu1984

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Ok a quick step by step:

1. Clone your RAID Array to your SSD
2. Go to your BIOS, set to boot from your SSD, set that to RAID not AHCI.
3. Follow the instructions in the answer here http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/changing-from-raid-to-ahci/4c94f678-6bd1-48a6-b871-8872c841023a
4. Shutdown and go back to your BIOS. Set your SSD as AHCI.
5. It should now boot, Remove any RAID Drivers and install your chipset AHCI drivers.
6. Tweak your OS to be more SSD friendly. Google is your friend.
 
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Drummerdude

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Typically, since you're cloning everything identically, there won't be driver issues. It'll just popup the first boot and say new device installed, and you need to restart. After that, done deal. You can use either Macrium, or Ghost, or even I think EaseUS Partition Master has a clone feature in it as well.
 

ArisVer

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Thanks for your advices ppl.

I used Macrium reflect and cloned the raid to the ssd. Checked the BIOS and there was only one RAID/AHCI mode so I left it as it was. Booted to the SSD. And yes it is fast.

One thing though. You have to go to the BIOS and break the raid array else you are left with two unusable disks.