Question on RAID

[Doggiedog]

I had to return my defective P67 MB and am considering getting a Z68 MB. Will my RAID setup from an Asus P8P67 Deluxe work on say an Asus P8Z68 Pro/Deluxe MB or a Gigabyte MB?

 

[nanaki333]

enable raid in the bios and see if the onboard raid detects both drives are still in an array. i was able to move my array from c2d to x58 when it came out. ended up reinstalling anyway.

 

[Doggiedog]

So there is a chance it will not work? My drives are about 1/2 filled (2TB) and I returned my MB already. If I stick with Asus, do you think RAID would work on Z68 MB?

 

[nanaki333]

your data should be fine, but windows may act fussy because of the new chipset. i would reinstall on a single drive and install windows on that, add your array back, boot off the single, and recover the data, then reinstall. you can try booting straight from the array. worst that will happen is it'll bsod and not want to boot windows. then just do the reinstall on a drive and grab the data.

 

[corkyg]

A lot depends on the kind of RAID you are using. RAID1 (Mirroring) can be broken up and moved with out losing anything because all data is on either drive. It's no different than replacing the RAID1 drives with larger ones. One can easily recuild a RAID1 array with one drive of data without loss of data.

 

[Nothinman]

So there is a chance it will not work? My drives are about 1/2 filled (2TB) and I returned my MB already. If I stick with Asus, do you think RAID would work on Z68 MB?

Unless it's the exact same board and BIOS revision there's always a chance it won't work. That's one of the main reasons to avoid that BIOS fakeRAID stuff. I think the ICH arrays are pretty portable, but I don't even know for sure because I always prefer Linux software RAID.

 

[Emulex]

ich raid is pretty much compatible as said above. try to wire them likewise (order,etc) the ich tatooes the drives with a code like a WWN but most consumer drives only have a serial # not a forever unique wwn

 

[Doggiedog]

Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I should have provided more info. My boot drive is an SSD and the RAID drive is for archiving and is RAID 0. I don't remember which SATA cable it was set on. I think it was the JMicron SATA port. I guess I will just try each port until one works.

 

[nanaki333]

oh... then your raid should be fine

 

[Seero]

I had to return my defective P67 MB and am considering getting a Z68 MB. Will my RAID setup from an Asus P8P67 Deluxe work on say an Asus P8Z68 Pro/Deluxe MB or a Gigabyte MB?

In theory, it should. It is a good idea to backup data before changing mobo. That are lots that can go wrong, and not reading raid drives properly is one of them.

There are different ways of raiding drives. The number correspond to method, not the actual implementation. That means, new mobo may not see the raid 0 setup and will destroy it shall you recreate it. Having said that, I believe the bios of asus p67 is almost identical to z68, so you should be fine. Back up Back up Back up Back up. Hell backup your backups.

I move raids around. Trust me, when things go smoothly, it takes seconds to set it up. If things don't go smoothly, restoring the drive via backups is much faster than to find out what and how.

 

[Nothinman]

In theory, it should. It is a good idea to backup data before changing mobo. That are lots that can go wrong, and not reading raid drives properly is one of them.

There are different ways of raiding drives. The number correspond to method, not the actual implementation. That means, new mobo may not see the raid 0 setup and will destroy it shall you recreate it. Having said that, I believe the bios of asus p67 is almost identical to z68, so you should be fine. Back up Back up Back up Back up. Hell backup your backups.

I move raids around. Trust me, when things go smoothly, it takes seconds to set it up. If things don't go smoothly, restoring the drive via backups is much faster than to find out what and how.

A Linux live CD is always a good recovery option, the dmraid package supports a lot of those fakeRAID formats so even if the BIOS won't see it right you might be able to assemble the array and get the data off of it that way. Of course you still need a repository large enough to hold all of the data temporarily.