Move Intel Raid 1 pair from one computer to another?

[jonnyz2]

Hi,

Searching for a while on Intel's site didn't yeild anything specific and I'm not finding it here either; so, here's my question....

I'm trying to optimize for photo processing and I currently access a NAS for my image storage. However, that has recently become far too slow for the really large (1.7TB!) photo files that I'm currently working on.

Current Setup: a photo processing workstation with newly installed SSD. All photo file storage is on a a home built NAS (based on a consumer mobo with the intel ICH9R chip). The photos are stored in a Raid 1 pair that was created with Intel's Matrix Storage software.

Desired Setup: Move all photo storage to photo processing workstation.

Plans: I would like to take the two disks with photos on them and attach them to a different mobo with an ICH8R chip (note, that's an EARLIER version chip) with Intel RST installed.

If anyone knows whether this is possible please let me know.

Also, if there are any special steps or things to be careful to avoid, please let me know.

Thanks!

 

[corkyg]

It can be done. This has been discussed many times. Each drive in the array is a duplicate. You can rebuild the array in another PC with just one of those drives. Buyild the new array, then copy the files from one of the old RAID 1 disks to the new array. You always have a backup that way.

http://www.google.com/search?source...ferent+PC&gs_l=hp....0.0.0.291594...........0.