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transferring RAID disks to a new system

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flipdon

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is it possible to setup RAID 0 on one system...then transfer the hard drives (2, in my case) to a new system with a new RAID card? i just bought 2 WD 120GB drives that i wanna stripe together, but i'd move those two to along when i build a new rig.

is there a way for me to not have to wipe the hard drives clean when moving the drives into a new system? i kinda don't have enough space to backup ~240 GB of stuff
 
It might work for win 98/me.
It might work for win2k/xp as well if the raid card is same and you are just switching mobos. I doubt it would work if you go from highpoint raid to promise raid card.
 
ahhh, i see now. cause i just bought a RAID card from Compugeeks for ~$20 to play around with RAID. guess if its not quality i have alot of burning to do when i get a new system
 
I have done it between two Highpoint controllers and it worked fine, but I wouldn't trust my data trying it with any other cards.
 
I have found if its the same chipset Highpoint to Highpoint or Promise (fastrack) to Promise (fastrack) there seem to be no problems but when you try different chipsets and of course software it does not work... 🙁 Also it has to be the same config also (Raid 0 or...???)

Just my observations... 😉
 
It worked for me.

I recently upgraded from an Abit KT7 to an Abit KR7A, and the RAID survived intact.

Your mileage may vary.
 
dj4005: im assuming Abit uses the same RAID controller for both motherboards, right?

i wonder what kinda controller is is on a $20 RAID card . . .
 
The BIOS on the card has to be similar (has to allow the same block size)

The BIOS also has to support the RAID type that you have now, which is probably going to be universally supported (RAID 0)

If those options are met, then 80% of the transfers to different RAID cards will work. The other 20% will not due to proprietary software, funky setups, and general errors.

 
the safest way is using the same controller/chipset.

It never works if you use different chipset (from diff. MFG) and want to keep your data
 
Actually, the safest and best way would be to Ghost your image over to a third hard drive and then reinstall the image on the newly formatted drives in the new box.
 
say i do try to transfer the disks to a RAID card with a different brand controller/chipset. will the Hard Drives then be corrupted after that? or will there be just an error message with no permanent damage done.

if so, i guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a try, but something tells me it probably wouldn't turn out that way.
 
i've decided to buy an Abit ST6 for my celeron 1.2a. It comes with a 2-channel ATA-100 HighPoint HPT370A RAID solution.

i'd like to eventually buy an AMD system, possibly a Tbred on the new legacy-free Abit AT7, which comes with a 4 channel ATA/133 RAID (Highpoint 374).

They're the same manufactuer, Highpoint, but different chips (370A and 374). It worked for dj4005 moving from the 370 (KT7) to 372 (KR7A), so i hope it will for me also.
 
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