Raid 0 and a new motherboard.

[Greenman]

I have 2 36 gig raptors in a raid 0 array, and I'm going to swap out the motherboard and cpu. It was my hope to be able to do a windows repair and save everything on the drives, but then I started to wonder if the ULI raid controller would even be able to see the array created on an nForce 2 board. Do I even have a chance?

The big reason to avoid a complete reinstall is one of the apps I use charges $50 for a key everytime I re-install, and no, you can't use the same key twice. Yes, I do hate them, and yes, I hope the greedy prick that came up with the idea dies from the worst case of hemorrhoids in the history of modern medicine.

 

[Greenman]

Well, since a lot of people looked and none had an answer I went ahead and tried it, and the answer is; not even maybe. Bios sees the array, and wants to format it.
Bummer.

 

[RebateMonger]

This is one disadvantage of using the built-in RAID BIOS on a motherboard. When you toss the motherboard, you have to erase the drives and start the RAID array over again.

If you buy a separate RAID card, you can simply move the card and the drives to the new motherboard and it'll work just like in the old motherboard (as soon as you load the RAID driver into your OS.

 

[Jiggz]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
This is one disadvantage of using the built-in RAID BIOS on a motherboard. When you toss the motherboard, you have to erase the drives and start the RAID array over again.

If you buy a separate RAID card, you can simply move the card and the drives to the new motherboard and it'll work just like in the old motherboard (as soon as you load the RAID driver into your OS.

This is where an ADD IN Raid card is better than an mobo built in. To go around this, you need to mirror the raid array to a third hdd. Format the new raid array and then restore. So it's a choice of getting an add in card or a third back up hdd. I went for the latter.