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Intel RAID and AMD RAID compatibility

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No. You can't migrate between RAID controlled by the onboard RAID controller, regardless of brand. (Without losing data, at least)

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May I ask what you're using it for?  There may be a better alternative.

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My system config is a bit more complex. I have a RAID1 and two RAID0s. Only the RAID1 is my C drive. The RAID0s are data.

For Windows, I can take a single drive from the RAID1 and `dd` over my C drive.

 

I have 2 RAID0 arrays with a couple terabytes of data. I actually have duplicate drives for the exact storage capacity sitting around for a NAS build and the amount of data on those drives is less than half the RAID0 capacity.

 

What are my options?

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It's better if you do a clean install, but the RAID1 transfer should work - done it with both purely data drive and OS install, but didn't try booting.

 

It will show up as a normal drive. If you put both those drives into a new system ,Windows will put one offline due to hardware signature conflict error, but it can still be activated and mapped. 

 

RAID0 transfer will not work. You need to backup or offload the data, then you dismantle the array. Anything left on the RAID0 array will be lost PERMANENTLY. 

 

My recommendation is to clean install a new copy of Windows on the new PC, but if you need one of the RAID1 drives for that the other will remain intact as long as there isn't a catastrophic hardware failure - physical damage to the drive. 

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If you try to set up a RAID1 for the OS on the new PC, and use the old RAID1 drives, the setup will wipe all the data on those drives permanently, so make sure you back up everything important before that.

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3 minutes ago, Mr.Humble said:

If you try to set up a RAID1 for the OS on the new PC, and use the old RAID1 drives, the setup will wipe all the data on those drives permanently, so make sure you back up everything important before that.

Actually, I only have 4 SATA ports on the new board so I bought an NVMe drive for Windows. Sucks I can't RAID1 it on this board, but I haven't had an SSD fail since OCZ disappeared.

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9 hours ago, Sawtaytoes said:

My system config is a bit more complex. I have a RAID1 and two RAID0s. Only the RAID1 is my C drive. The RAID0s are data.

For Windows, I can take a single drive from the RAID1 and `dd` over my C drive.

 

I have 2 RAID0 arrays with a couple terabytes of data. I actually have duplicate drives for the exact storage capacity sitting around for a NAS build and the amount of data on those drives is less than half the RAID0 capacity.

 

What are my options?

Interesting situation.  For the RAID0 array(s) that it seems like you're focused on for now based on the OP, it sounds like you're planning to build a NAS to replace them so it doesn't have to run internally?  That might be the way to go, especially if you are very limited for internal SATA ports on the new board as you mentioned.

 

As for the system drive, are you running any 24/7 high availability things that require that level of reliability?  If not, my opinion would be that RAID1 is simply unnecessary, assuming you already have a separate backup, which you would need regardless because RAID doesn't serve that function.

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Nothing that requires RAID1, but I want my ProgramData and Users folders backed up. Reconfiguring hundreds of programs after a reinstall is impossible without those.

 

10 years ago, during the early days of SSDs, I often had SSD failures even after taking steps to prevent it like moving pagefile.

 

To put it into perspective, all but 3 of my 15 OCZ SSDs have had write problems or died. I don't think the 10 various other branded drives have died though so maybe I'm safe now.

 

That's my biggest fear though. NAS backups should fix that.

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Did the backups, did the update. Put all the data back, I'm good to go.

 

USB3 -> SATA adapters were extremely useful. They, plus `robocopy`, made this process mostly painless.

 

Sucks I have to spend this weekend redoing my main rig, but that's my problem.

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