Walter Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 If I have mirroring set up with the Ultra-D's onboard NVRAID, does it do RAID1 by doing a block level mirror or does it write RAID stripes encoded in its own format on the disks? What I'm trying to get at is if I did fry my motherboard/BIOS, do I need to get the motherboard fixed before I can get the data off the drives? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcamino1984 Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 What I'm trying to get at is if I did fry my motherboard/BIOS, do I need to get the motherboard fixed before I can get the data off the drives?No, you should be able to get to the raid set as long as the hard drives are not fried as well. I was able to transfer a raid 0 array from an SLI-DR to a Venus with no problems at all.Here's the link to the wikipedia article on raid. It explains how raid works fairly well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 My question was whether or not the NVRAID controller treats RAID1 as a block level mirror or uses its own stripes to do the RAID. For example, Microsoft Windows software RAID1 is a block mirror. My goal would be to put a disk from the mirror in a new system that does not have a NVRAID controller and copy the data off of it. I believe your example was just moving disks from one MB with a NVRAID controller to another MB with a NVRAID controller. My presumption is that the answer to this question is 'no, you must have a NVRAID controller to read the array' but I wanted to double check. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcamino1984 Posted August 19, 2006 Posted August 19, 2006 I believe your example was just moving disks from one MB with a NVRAID controller to another MB with a NVRAID controller.That's correct, I haven't tried moving an array to any other type of controler. I am not familiar with exactly how the NV raid controler works or whether an array would work on another type of controler, but it sounds like your safest bet might be to pick up a temporary mobo that has NV raid while yours is being repaired if it comes to that. Perhaps someone else knows more about the differences in raid controlers? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted August 20, 2006 Posted August 20, 2006 If the board dies, you will be able to take one drive and read it with another controller. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtraPickles Posted August 20, 2006 Posted August 20, 2006 If the board dies, you will be able to take one drive and read it with another controller.Ya, what he said. No problems. -pickles Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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