Moving a Raid 0 to a new Motherboard...

[sean.seanberry]

Is it possible and or safe to move Raid 0 SSD's to a new motherboard without loosing files? I'm only asking because I believe my current motherboard is becoming faulty, all the USB devices will quit working at one time till I reboot.

Edit: The USB's will go out at random times.

 

[sean.seanberry]

https://www.easeus.com/backup-utility/clone-raid.html

Is this mostly to clone the Operating system?
Not trying to bite the hand that feeds, I was just checking the properties and the essential folders that contained work that I got aside for blender/unity etc, as well as the users folder and the windows folder itself I'm looking at 363gb.

Other items can be re-obtained via internet....

But to surmise, you're asking me to backup, which should be done anyways, because the raid will go away soon as I put the drives on another motherboard? It will not remember its configuration?

 

[mdd1963]

DId you read the title of the article? 'cloning a RAID 0 to a single disk'? it would take everything from the pair of drives and rewrite it to a single drive....or so I read...

And where did my original post go, anyway

 

[Guest]

"And where did my original post go, anyway"


It was deleted (but not by me) for some reason.

 

[mdd1963]

maybe because i did not post personalized chat with it, ("try this!") it was knocked out by a spam filter?

 

[mdd1963]

My first guess would have been to say "you are out of luck", until a google search led me to that article, specifcally stating 'clone RAID 1 to a single disk'....sounded quite appropriate....

 

[sean.seanberry]

DId you read the title of the article? 'cloning a RAID 0 to a single disk'? it would take everything from the pair of drives and rewrite it to a single drive....or so I read...

And where did my original post go, anyway

I may be a little ignorant but I'm not trying to be rude.....
....... BUT I CANNOT CLONE EVERYTHING to one Drive..... my RAID 0's current consumption is 7.56TB
My Largest External HDD is a Western Digital 4TB My Book....
From what I CAN SEE it does it all.... not just a few....

 

[USAFRet]

DId you read the title of the article? 'cloning a RAID 0 to a single disk'? it would take everything from the pair of drives and rewrite it to a single drive....or so I read...

And where did my original post go, anyway

I may be a little ignorant but I'm not trying to be rude.....
....... BUT I CANNOT CLONE EVERYTHING to one Drive..... my RAID 0's current consumption is 7.56TB
My Largest External HDD is a Western Digital 4TB My Book....
From what I CAN SEE it does it all.... not just a few....

RAID 0 + SSD, and you have an 8TB RAID array?
What is this....4x 2TB SSD's?

1. A RAID 0 should never be run without a strong backup routine. Unless you really don't care about the data.
2. A clone operation can't do bits and pieces of it.
3. Is this just RAID from the motherboard? If so, you're probably stuck on that motherboard.
4. What OS is this?

 

[sean.seanberry]

DId you read the title of the article? 'cloning a RAID 0 to a single disk'? it would take everything from the pair of drives and rewrite it to a single drive....or so I read...

And where did my original post go, anyway

I may be a little ignorant but I'm not trying to be rude.....
....... BUT I CANNOT CLONE EVERYTHING to one Drive..... my RAID 0's current consumption is 7.56TB
My Largest External HDD is a Western Digital 4TB My Book....
From what I CAN SEE it does it all.... not just a few....

RAID 0 + SSD, and you have an 8TB RAID array?
What is this....4x 2TB SSD's?

1. A RAID 0 should never be run without a strong backup routine. Unless you really don't care about the data.
2. A clone operation can't do bits and pieces of it.
3. Is this just RAID from the motherboard? If so, you're probably stuck on that motherboard.
4. What OS is this?

1: Like I mentioned a few messages ago... aside for blender/unity etc, as well as the users folder and the windows folder itself I'm looking at 363gb.
2. ? [don't quite understand] ?
3. 2 SSD's that are quite cluttered with excess of the above and mostly everything I own from the Microsoft store to Steam, which I can just re-download....
4. Win 10 Pro


---Back in August of 2016 I got the ASUS LGA2011 ROG STRIX X99....... Recently I have been having nothing but USB outages and random intervals where I have to hard boot my computer to just get back on...

I was hoping to acquire another STRIX to see if it will fix the problem....

 

[USAFRet]

What is your end goal here?
To have this RAID 0, in its exact current drive and software config, on a new motherboard?

This is unlikely to be possible.

1. Disregarding the RAID thing, this OS probably won't boot up on different hardware. It might, but be prepared for full failure.
2. That current RAID config probably won't woth with a different motherboard.

With the current cloning/imaging tools, the size of the total drive, or in this case the RAID array, makes no difference. They look at the total used data instead.

For instance...if you're only using 500GB out of 8TB, an Image or clone will only take that 500GB. It would easily fit into a 1TB drive.

 

[sean.seanberry]

What is your end goal here?
To have this RAID 0, in its exact current drive and software config, on a new motherboard?

This is unlikely to be possible.

1. Disregarding the RAID thing, this OS probably won't boot up on different hardware. It might, but be prepared for full failure.
2. That current RAID config probably won't woth with a different motherboard.

With the current cloning/imaging tools, the size of the total drive, or in this case the RAID array, makes no difference. They look at the total used data instead.

For instance...if you're only using 500GB out of 8TB, an Image or clone will only take that 500GB. It would easily fit into a 1TB drive.

I was fretting that maybe the outcome makes it seems the extended warranty useless when I bought the motherboard....
Like you said up to 500gb maybe vital files to me, but I went out and spent on 8tb for wiggle room.

 

[USAFRet]

What is your end goal here?
To have this RAID 0, in its exact current drive and software config, on a new motherboard?

This is unlikely to be possible.

1. Disregarding the RAID thing, this OS probably won't boot up on different hardware. It might, but be prepared for full failure.
2. That current RAID config probably won't woth with a different motherboard.

With the current cloning/imaging tools, the size of the total drive, or in this case the RAID array, makes no difference. They look at the total used data instead.

For instance...if you're only using 500GB out of 8TB, an Image or clone will only take that 500GB. It would easily fit into a 1TB drive.

I was fretting that maybe the outcome makes it seems the extended warranty useless when I bought the motherboard....
Like you said up to 500gb maybe vital files to me, but I went out and spent on 8tb for wiggle room.

Extended warranty cares nothing about your drives or data.

What is the actual configuration of the drives in this RAID?
Size/make/model.

 

[sean.seanberry]

I sent a link to info

 

[USAFRet]

3 x 4TB Samsung 850 EVO.

What do you use this for? While RAID 0 sounds sexy, and worked really well with HDD's....not so much with SSD's.
Benchmarks look great, but actual real world use, not so much.

In any case, you're almost certainly looking at a full reinstall, for the two reasons I listed above.
The OS + different motherboard, and the RAID + different motherboard.