RAID situation after boot drive format

[tudorgt95]

Hi everyone. 

Last week I've set up a RAID 1 on 2 HDD to store some pictures and documents, via bios on my asus b550f mobo. 

The question now is, will the RAID be undone if i format the boot drive to do a clean windows installation?

Thanks for answering.  

[Rehan_Nell]

Not in your case as you seem to have Hardware RAID, Once you setup any Hardware RAID configuration the drives are formatted, if you install a operating system on that drive it will be mirrored in the RAID 1 Configuration. If you want to clean reinstall windows again the RAID will still work but it will mirror what is currently on the drive(the clean OS) so make sure you have a backup of your data. Your RAID will only fail or be undone if the Motherboard's on-board RAID controller breaks or fails or both HDD fail. I hope this answers your question and I apologize for the long explanation. 

[tudorgt95]

So should I change the mobo, that's when i'll run onto issues with the raid. And, in that case, would the data be erased when i set up another raid on a new mobo, or will it just mirror themselves again, without changing any data?

Oh, and when i meant i'll format a drive, a meant an nvme drive were the boot is, not the raided ones. 

 

[Rehan_Nell]

No the RAID will not be undone and you will not loose data on the RAIDED drives if your Boot drive is formatted in this case. Hardware RAID works better than software RAID and your motherboard will most likely not give you problems anytime soon. I mostly work on servers with dedicated RAID cards and the HDD/SSD are used 24/7 with the OS installed on the RAIDED drives, and those drives last about three years before they fail. 

 

In short, your motherboard is perfectly fine and your Hard drives will last long if not intensely used by programs. Making backups is just a last resort if all goes wrong and you only need to do it every month or two on an external drive and you should be covered.