01-05-2006, 02:24 AM
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Re: Moving RAID drives from one pc to another
Leythos wrote:
> In article <Osvp6mIEGHA.336@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>, bbunny@bqik.net
> says...
>> These people don't even read the posts. He stated that he had
>> about 500gb of _data_. Nothing at all about XP. Since these
>> RAID utilities are so different from each other, it would be hard to
>> say. JBOD should not be a problem. 500gb is a lot to back up,
>> but it should be done.
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> The real issue is knowing the controller that provides the RAID
> function and if the new board has the same controller. In some cases,
> like a Mirror, you can move drives between controllers of the same
> vendor, in others, since the controller formats the drives you can't.
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> We don't know if the chap is using R1 or R0, since it's just two
> drives and 500GB, I suspect it's R0. To me, it would be a crap shoot,
> meaning that R0 is bad enough, but moving them to another controller
> is a risky move at any time.
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> There is no way anyone here, unless the have experience with R0 on the
> exact same platforms, could say if it will work or not.
YEP
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