Question about moving Raid hard drives :)

[-Omen-]

Hey, can you take a pair of raid 0 striped hard drives from a system where they are on a raid card to another system with a differant brand raid card or onboard raid and have them still work, retain data and not be damaged in anyway?

Basically, is this raid partition and information specific to the raid card, motherboard, etc or can they be moved as long as they stay in the original pair?

Thanks in advance for the help

 

[boyRacer]

i doubt. perhaps it would work if it was the same brand... like from a promise PCI controller to an onboard promise as well but i also doubt that would work.

 

[-Omen-]

So the raid info isnt store on the hard drives, but on the card you think?

 

[boyRacer]

no the raid info is stored on the drives... but i don't think different brands can recognize the same configuration data. i might be wrong since the only raid chip i've used is promise.

 

[Alphanos]

It's like if ou had a word file saved on a disk and tried to read it on a system that had WordPerfect instead; all of the data is there, but it's in a different format. You could try emailing the manufacturers of the two raid controllers to check if it might work, but it probably won't.

 

[-Omen-]

Hmm.. so it wouldnt be like word on two differant computers?
Still compatible, just a slightly different set up...

 

[Alphanos]

If you have two identical RAID controllers, then yes. Otherwise the analody of Word/Wordperfect is more accurate. Word/Wordperfect both perform the same function, but since they're made by different companies they do it in a different way. Even different versions of Word have different file formats, so it is likely that different revisions of one company's RAID controller would have different ways of setting up a RAID array. It is vaguely possible that a newer RAID controller from a company could be backwards compatible with an older model, but I'm just guessing based on no real knowledge for this last part. Seriously, with a question like this you'd better email the company and ask.