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    Moving a Raid 0 to a new Computer

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by FrozenSolid, Dec 10, 2015.

  1. FrozenSolid

    FrozenSolid Notebook Evangelist

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    I currently have two x 1 TB mSATA raided together as my data drive and I am using a Sandisk Extreme Pro as my Boot Drive and I am toying with the idea of upgrading my computer and I was wondering if is possible to just unplug the mSATAs and fit them into the new computer and would they work? Assuming of course that the boot drive has IRST previously installed?
     
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    It MIGHT, if you have the same RAID controller and it provisions and runs the striping the same. I no longer use RAID 0 at all ( RAID 1 or JBOD ) but when I used to do it with spinners I always just backed them up to an external driver, did a verify and then recreated the RAID from scratch on the new machine. ( Doing RAID 0 recoveries after your controller fails is a pain, trust me )
     
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    That is what I thought. It would be better if I broke the array up but one of my data folders is pretty near 1 TB and I was hoping to not have to spread the folder over two drives.
     
    FrozenSolid, Dec 11, 2015
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