switching raid chipsets, possible without reformat?

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darw_n

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hey guys, it's been about a year since I last posted...

anyways, my it7max died, and I had a RAID1 set up. Unfortunately, I didn't have anything mirrored, and those drives hold an enormous amount of info. Can I migrate my drives to a newer or diffrent chipset? I don't care about reformatting windows, it's the storage drives I am worried about.

In another words, are the stripes different from chipset to chipset? Will the storage drives appear under any chipset?
 
generally no, unless its exactly the same controller
sometimes with related controllers, and never with competeing controllers

one of the reasons you get a card instead of employing onboard RAID controllers
Ive had my SX6000 array if 4 different boxes

your basically reduced to buying a mobo based on its RAID controller if you want to recover the data, which is why I wrote off my first RAID0 array
 
well, the chipset is the HPT374...

can I migrate the array to a card that uses that chipset? and if so, any recomendations?

thanks much
 
yes you can migrate to a PCI card with that chipset.

Highpoint makes their own cards. Go look on newegg, they carry them.
 
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