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Sam

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15th Oct 09 at 10:58

At the moment I have a PC box which is my "server" running XP Pro SP3, with a Silicon Image SATA RAID card which controls 2x 250Gb SATA HDDs on a RAID1 system (i.e. disk mirroring), with the main C: drive being a 40Gb IDE drive.

Now the motherboard, CPU and main HDD are quite ancient by today's standards (AMD Athlon XP 1600) so I was thinking of buying this system:

Novatech Barebone Bundle - AMD X2 240 - 2GB DDR2 800Mhz - Nvidia MCP61P Motherboard - 4 Bay ATX Tower Case & PSU

I see from the spec that it has SATA ports AND supports RAID1.

My question is, if I connect the two RAID drives from my existing PC into this new one, will it just work? I intend to buy an SATA drive to replace the 40Gb IDE so obviously I will be reinstalling the OS. The RAID drives are formatted as NTFS by the way.

Richie

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15th Oct 09 at 12:41

I very much doubt mate that you can move over from a SI Controller to an Nforce controller. You would be better off taking a clone of the disk onto a single disk, blatting the array, moving the drives over and create a new array, then restore the data.

Richie

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15th Oct 09 at 12:42

I say better off, I mean safer!

Richie

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15th Oct 09 at 12:44

http://raid2raid.com/ <--- interesting

Sam

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15th Oct 09 at 13:10

Interesting site there Richie!

I will obviously do a backup of everything on the drive(s) before I move systems, I might try that program first before recreating the array because I want to have as little down time as possible really.

Thanks for the info and link though!

Bart

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15th Oct 09 at 17:25

I was going to say No Sam.

The software sounds interesting, but im not sure how great its actually going to be.

It appears to be some kind of software raid built and configured in windows, if thats the case I doubt you can transfer your current raid using this software.

I might be wrong though.

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