Recover Raid 0 Array?

[datflipkid]

My LGA775 Maximus II Formula died on me.
I ran the operating system on a ssd,
and stored music on two drives, in raid 0.

Is there a way I can retrieve this music?

I know that if I get the same motherboard, I should be fine..
Or with a motherboard that has the same sata controller?
The sata controller on my motherboard is Marvell 88SE6121.

The p5q pro has a Marvell 88SE6111, will that work to run my current raid 0 array?

I also heard that if you run the drive with a ubuntu livecd I can recover the drive?

Not sure what I should do.

 

[Blain]

Why would you have used a RAID 0 array for storage of anything you didn't have backed up?

 

[BrightCandle]

There is no redundancy with raid 0, if a drive is dead everything on there is lost. Depending on the fault on the drive a recovery company might be able to get some of it back but it will be crazy expensive. Raid 0 will enormously complicate recovery.

No one should ever store anything on raid 0 that they want to keep.

 

[Meghan54]

Not sure what I should do.

Cry? Say goodbye to your data?

About all that's going to happen for you, unfortunately.

 

[smakme7757]

Cry? Say goodbye to your data?

About all that's going to happen for you, unfortunately.

Wrong!

If it's only the motherboard that died and not the RAID then moving to a motherboard with the same controller should let you just boot up and see it as long as you enable RAID in the BIOS.

Recently on another forum a guy (or girl) talked about moving from ICH9 to ICH10 which worked for him, so it might be possible to move the RAID over to another controller, but i guess that's a bit more hit and miss.

Seeing as the disks are in good health all you need is a RAID controller that will recognize the array.

As for storing music, a RAID 1 would have been best, but if data redundancy wasn't a concern then just using the disks as stand alone drives would have been the best alternative.

 

[smitbret]

My LGA775 Maximus II Formula died on me.
I ran the operating system on a ssd,
and stored music on two drives, in raid 0.

Is there a way I can retrieve this music?

I know that if I get the same motherboard, I should be fine..
Or with a motherboard that has the same sata controller?
The sata controller on my motherboard is Marvell 88SE6121.

The p5q pro has a Marvell 88SE6111, will that work to run my current raid 0 array?

I also heard that if you run the drive with a ubuntu livecd I can recover the drive?

Not sure what I should do.

I can't figure out why RAID 0 was ever used to store music files.

1 - Get a new motherboard with the same chipset as the old one and just boot up from there. You could try the new MB but I wouldn't chance it if the data isn't backed up somewhere and I really don't want to lose it.

2 - Get your music files out of RAID 0. Instead do a RAID 1, or better yet, use the 2nd drive in an external enclosure and do frequent backups.

 

[rsutoratosu]

Thats a motherboard failure not a raid failure, only a disk failure will cause the data to died.

http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm - This allows you to read your 2 drives and rebuild them. Assuming the data are intact are not broken - Works for raid 0

http://www.diskinternals.com/raid-recovery/ - Another raid reconstruction software.

Your choices are getting the same or similar mobo with raid chipset or using software and getting a big ass drive to write the data from your raid 0 array.

 

[corkyg]

I can't figure out why RAID 0 was ever used to store music files.

1 - Get a new motherboard with the same chipset as the old one and just boot up from there. You could try the new MB but I wouldn't chance it if the data isn't backed up somewhere and I really don't want to lose it.

2 - Get your music files out of RAID 0. Instead do a RAID 1, or better yet, use the 2nd drive in an external enclosure and do frequent backups.

This! The odds that a new mobo will solve the problem are slim.

 

[datflipkid]

When did I ever say in my post that my drives were dead?

thanks rsutoratosu, corkg, smitbret, and smakme775
I will try runtime method if not, the old motherboard method.

 

[Blain]

When did I ever say in my post that my drives were dead?

Even if your drives are fine, we're still perplexed as to why you stored your files in a RAID 0 array without any backup plan in place.

 

[Doomer]

Yea, we're all perfect around here and never do silly stupid things.

 

[smakme7757]

Even if your drives are fine, we're still perplexed as to why you stored your files in a RAID 0 array without any backup plan in place.

You answered his question with a question when you should have read his post properly, realized that it was a problem with the motherboard and advised him how he could recover his data.

Advising against RAID 0 for data storage is fine, but you should at least try to offer guidance before offering criticism.

 

[datflipkid]

You answered his question with a question when you should have read his post properly, realized that it was a problem with the motherboard and advised him how he could recover his data.

Advising against RAID 0 for data storage is fine, but you should at least try to offer guidance before offering criticism.

Thank you

I am trying to get my hands ahold of another motherboard, the maximus II formula would be ideal but the p5q deluxe also has the "Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support Marvell 88SE6121", and it is much cheaper, so would I be fine in getting the p5q deluxe instead of the maximus II formula?

 

[Blain]

Advising against RAID 0 for data storage is fine, but you should at least try to offer guidance before offering criticism.

I didn't criticize at all... I asked a question (twice), that lots of us would like to know.
Storing data on a RAID 0 array is fine with me, as long as there is some kind of back-up scheme in place.
If datflipkid didn't have a plan for back-up, there's a reason why.
If we discover that reason, it may help us address others we come across in the future that think along the same lines.

 

[corkyg]

I agree with Blain - further, when he asked that question, corrective measures to OP had already been offered.

 

[aigomorla]

Need to keep to the same chipset as possible.

In honesty u need to pay attention to the ich-r on the board.

I believe ur board is ich9r. So any board with ich9r would detect ur old raid array.

 

[billyb0b]

my data drives in the main PC is in a RAID 0 array, though it's backed up with crashplan.

i wanted speedier drive read/write due to using the array in daily tasks

 

[smakme7757]

I agree with Blain - further, when he asked that question, corrective measures to OP had already been offered.

Edit: I was referring to the first post by Blain which i didn't specify in my reply.

But at least the OP received help in the end.

 

[datflipkid]

Need to keep to the same chipset as possible.

In honesty u need to pay attention to the ich-r on the board.

I believe ur board is ich9r. So any board with ich9r would detect ur old raid array.

Thanks! Ich10r actually, p45. Anyone else would confirm that the ich-r is what I need to pay attention to?

 

[imagoon]

Thanks! Ich10r actually, p45. Anyone else would confirm that the ich-r is what I need to pay attention to?

Assuming you were using the Intel ICH-RAID functions, if you attach to the exact same chip it should detect the array. You might need to import it as a foreign config in the settings. I am not sure of the exact process on the Intel side. Dell PERC generally works moving up a board rev (PERC 5 array -> will appear on a PERC 6 as a foreign but importable array.) Highpoint also works this way. Intel might be similar where and older array is readable on newer chips but I can't confirm that.

That board that said "with marvell" indicates it uses the Marvell chips for RAID. The Marvell chips won't read the Intel RAID.

I also can't recall the name of it but there was a Linux utility that could read the drives because it knew the various RAID formats supported by Intel, Marvell, LSI etc. You could import it as a kernel module then mount the disk group and let the driver do all the CPU work to decode the array.

 

[hddtech]

Feel bad for you, RAID 0 is the worst when comes to retrieving lost data, not tolerant at all any damages, immediately lost of data

 

[Smoblikat]

In my experience if the controllers are similar you wont have any issues with plugging the drives in, setting them to RAID and using them like normal.

 

[Golgatha]

I can't figure out why RAID 0 was ever used to store music files.

1 - Get a new motherboard with the same chipset as the old one and just boot up from there. You could try the new MB but I wouldn't chance it if the data isn't backed up somewhere and I really don't want to lose it.

2 - Get your music files out of RAID 0. Instead do a RAID 1, or better yet, use the 2nd drive in an external enclosure and do frequent backups.

I will say this until I'm red in the face. RAID1 is not a backup, it is for uptime.

The external enclosure with frequent backups is the only way to actually backup something. I would actually purchase two external drives and rotate them to an offsite location, but that's just me. I suppose it also matters what your data is worth to you.

 

[Golgatha]

In my experience if the controllers are similar you wont have any issues with plugging the drives in, setting them to RAID and using them like normal.

This is my experience as well. I use Intel chipset RAID and I've been able to move a RAID0 games install array around from ICH7-ICH10 without any issues.

 

[Compman55]

To the original poster.....can you clarify a few things?

Are you running RAID 0 under the intel ICH-R chipset, the Marvell chipset, or are you using windows software RAID 0?

Is using the intel, then almost any motherbaord with the ICH-R whatever the number is should work well. If using the marvell, most likely another mavell will work, but it would be best to match it. The the data is very important, and you cannot afford to loose it, then you should stick with the same mobo. I have been in these shoes with a PROMISE 20276 controller and I just bought another motherboard. I installed the ram in the dark and put it in backwards, smoked the board.