Question about raid

[PrinceofWands]

My last motherboard had built in raid (nvidis gb250) and I set up a raid 0 array. That board fried, so now I need to find a way to access the array to snag my data. Can it be done without another board using the same exact raid controller?

 

[w00t]

most boards have raid controller's built in no you cant use ur from ur old mobo unless its pci raid controller.

 

[bob4432]

tagging for later....

 

[hippotautamus]

There's not much chance of you recovering your data. Don't bother with Raid0, just use spanning.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: hippotautamus
There's not much chance of you recovering your data. Don't bother with Raid0, just use spanning.

Why would you span the volumes (ie Software RAID or JBOD). You get no benefits of RAID, might as well just sell the 2 HDD's and get one big one.

RAID 0 is fine for a two disk stripe.

-Kevin

 

[bob4432]

mabye you could pick up the same board somewhere used for pretty cheap?

 

[imported_booradley]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
My last motherboard had built in raid (nvidis gb250) and I set up a raid 0 array. That board fried, so now I need to find a way to access the array to snag my data. Can it be done without another board using the same exact raid controller?

No one up to this point has answered your question. Yes, I believe you can get your data back with any old raid controller. You would have to try it though; I'm not positive.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: bob4432
mabye you could pick up the same board somewhere used for pretty cheap?

Unfortunately it was part of a soltek qbic system (the little mini cubes) so the board is pretty limited. You can't buy them anymore anywhere because they suck and burn out in 2-4 months (just like mine). If anyone finds an eq3801 system in working condition I'd be happy to buy it though. Just so I could save my 430GB's on the array.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: booradley

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
My last motherboard had built in raid (nvidis gb250) and I set up a raid 0 array. That board fried, so now I need to find a way to access the array to snag my data. Can it be done without another board using the same exact raid controller?

No one up to this point has answered your question. Yes, I believe you can get your data back with any old raid controller. You would have to try it though; I'm not positive.

Tried my dragon platinum board, but it's a no go that way. I guess highpoint can't read whatever nvidia uses.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: booradley

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
My last motherboard had built in raid (nvidis gb250) and I set up a raid 0 array. That board fried, so now I need to find a way to access the array to snag my data. Can it be done without another board using the same exact raid controller?

No one up to this point has answered your question. Yes, I believe you can get your data back with any old raid controller. You would have to try it though; I'm not positive.

Why give advice if you don't know the answer?

 

[Jiggz]

The answer is NO! You cannot recover that data unless you use an identical mobo with the same RAID controller. So your only chance it to give it to professional data recoverer and they sure would have a better way of recovering that data. This is one of the disadvantage of built in RAID controllers. When it comes to upgrading mobo you will have to back up your data from your RAID to another single disk. On the otherhand, if you have a PCI RAID controller you can just move the controller to the new mobo and will still have the data in the same raid set of drive. So if you are using mobo built in RAID, you need to make sure you have a third drive to back up your data. This is the setup I have. But I keep the back up drive disconnected unless I have to do back ups.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
The answer is NO! You cannot recover that data unless you use an identical mobo with the same RAID controller. So your only chance it to give it to professional data recoverer and they sure would have a better way of recovering that data. This is one of the disadvantage of built in RAID controllers. When it comes to upgrading mobo you will have to back up your data from your RAID to another single disk. On the otherhand, if you have a PCI RAID controller you can just move the controller to the new mobo and will still have the data in the same raid set of drive. So if you are using mobo built in RAID, you need to make sure you have a third drive to back up your data. This is the setup I have. But I keep the back up drive disconnected unless I have to do back ups.

not even if he uses another ng350 based board? damn, that sucks.

 

[stevty2889]

Unless you use a motherboard with an identical raid conroller, you won't get your data back. It doesn't have to be an identical motherboard, just an identical raid conroller. If you get a differant motherboard with the same raid conroller you will be fine. I have had my raid-0 array on 3 differant motherboards, 2 with the 865 chipset and one with the 875 chipset, and they all recognized my raid-0 array with no problems.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
Unless you use a motherboard with an identical raid conroller, you won't get your data back. It doesn't have to be an identical motherboard, just an identical raid conroller. If you get a differant motherboard with the same raid conroller you will be fine. I have had my raid-0 array on 3 differant motherboards, 2 with the 865 chipset and one with the 875 chipset, and they all recognized my raid-0 array with no problems.

This is correct. If you can find another motherboard -- or even a PCI board -- with the same RAID controller, you should be able to access the data. It's generally not compatible across brands, because usually the drives are formatted in a specific way when they are set up as a RAID array.