Question How to read old Intel RAID 1 drives

[AardvarkCheeselog]

I have 2 drives taken from an old system that died without backups. The system had an Intel ICH10R Southbridge controller with 2 drives in a RAID 1 (disk mirroring) config.

What is the most plausible way to get the data read from these drives?

 

[Aeacus]

What is the most plausible way to get the data read from these drives?

Should be as simple as cloning one of the drive's contents to another drive and then accessing the data/image.

Working with clones is better since then, you don't damage the original drive any further.

For other methods, found this: https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-recover-data-from-a-broken-raid-1-set/775069/7

 

[johnbl]

sometimes you have to have the same hardware controller to read the data from the drive. ICH10R was sometime in 2008 or 2009
you would want to know what machine the drives came out of and what controller chip it was using (intel? some systems had more than one)

 

[evermorex76]

With that type of RAID controller, you can actually probably just plug one of the drives into another computer with the port set to AHCI (non-RAID) mode and it will just be readable, similar to using Windows software RAID 1. Intel didn't use any proprietary encoding/structure like some other add-in hybrid (fakeRAID) controllers.