Hi,
I built a 3way raid 5 system on an ICH8R system and didn't realise how slow it would be. I would like to swap the system to run off a raid card like the 3405 (also running Raid 5).
The machine has a lot of install/config effort gone into it, and I don't have time to go thru all that again.
I'm unsure how to go about swapping the raid systems, and have windows still recognise its boot drive.
I've assumed that the drives can't just be pulled off one raid system and shoved on another and expected to still work, cause I'm guessing the parity checking algorithms are different across manufacturers? Plus the drivers for the adaptec card wouldn't exist on the drives currently in the ICH8R.
Can I do something like get the ICH8R system to degrade to a simpler mirrored system, then add the drivers for the adaptec card to it, plugging it into the adaptec card and hope it recognises the new hardware, then add drives to make it up to raid 5 again?
Thanks,
Herb
I built a 3way raid 5 system on an ICH8R system and didn't realise how slow it would be. I would like to swap the system to run off a raid card like the 3405 (also running Raid 5).
The machine has a lot of install/config effort gone into it, and I don't have time to go thru all that again.
I'm unsure how to go about swapping the raid systems, and have windows still recognise its boot drive.
I've assumed that the drives can't just be pulled off one raid system and shoved on another and expected to still work, cause I'm guessing the parity checking algorithms are different across manufacturers? Plus the drivers for the adaptec card wouldn't exist on the drives currently in the ICH8R.
Can I do something like get the ICH8R system to degrade to a simpler mirrored system, then add the drivers for the adaptec card to it, plugging it into the adaptec card and hope it recognises the new hardware, then add drives to make it up to raid 5 again?
Thanks,
Herb