Motherboard failed while drives were in RAID0, how can I get data off the drives?

[fumbduck]

I had two harddrives in a RAID 0 Array on the onboard raid controller. The motherboard crashed and I couldn't get it to work again, so I bought a new mobo and processor, but I need to get data off of these drives.

How would I go about doing this? Could i RAID 0 them again, or would that completely erase them?

Any ideas?

 

[bozo1]

Restore from your backup.

 

[zephyrprime]

You need something with the same raid controller so you can mount your raid array again.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: bozo1
Restore from your backup.

Harsh but true -- with RAID 0 the chance of failure is close to double that of running a single drive, so you really do need to have a backup strategy if you care about any of the data stored on the drives.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: bozo1
Restore from your backup.

Any good recomendations for "a good backup strategy"?

 

[XMan]

I had the same thing happen to me.

Replaced the motherboard, crossed my fingers, and turned the power on . . . and everything booted up just fine. This was even going from an NV7-133R to a 4G4A+. I lose no data whatsoever, as both motherboards use the same Highpoint controller.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: orion7144

Originally posted by: bozo1
Restore from your backup.

Any good recomendations for "a good backup strategy"?

raid 0+1? raid 5 🙂