LSI9260 Move raid to new PC

[Gmainuk]

I'm having some problems with my current NAS so I'm thinking of moving the drives and raid controller over to a new motherboard, processor and ram. Does anyone know if I'll be able to do this without losing any data from the drives. Using an LSI 9260 card in raid 5 if it helps.

 

[USAFRet]

The way you do that is to move the critical data elsewhere and offline.
Then move the actual RAID drives into the new system.
If/when it works, then you move your critical data back onto the RAID drives.
If it doesn't work, then you rebuild the whole RAID array from scratch, then move your critical data back onto the RAID drives.

You could try to wing it, but what happens if it doesn't work? What will you do?

 

[Gmainuk]

Thanks USAFRet, think I will back up the data as suggested. Do you think it's better to install windows to an SSD or directly onto the raid array?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks USAFRet, think I will back up the data as suggested. Do you think it's better to install windows to an SSD or directly onto the raid array?

Depends on your usage, but probably the SSD.