RAID Question

[Cardzz]

I'm running 2 Seagate 120GB 7200rpm drives on a RAID 0 array and I was thinking of changing motherboards. Will I lose my data and have to start over? Is it possible to configure the new boards RAID without tampering with the drives? I suppose I am wondering if the new board will recognize the drives as they are or will they have to be formatted and recofigured? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Cardzz

[teststrips]

if you are very lucky, they will be detected, and everything will be hunky-dory..... but you probably aren't lucky. There is not a standard on how exactly to identify drives as being part of a raid set. If the new mobo has the same raid chipset, you'll probably be OK, but there are like 10 million different chipsets, so you're probably out of luck.

I would highly suggest backing up your data as best you can b4 doing anything. DVD writers are getting cheaper and cheaper, you can generally get one for 70 or 80 bucks after rebates here in the states.

[HippyWarlock]

The RAID configuration of the drives is linked to the RAID controller used to hook up to em.

If the controllers are the same then you should be home free.

If not, then simply rebuild the array, note: that this process DESTROYS all current data on your array.

And re-install from your backups.
.... you do have backups? Do you realise a spanned drive is roughly, exactly twice as likely to fail than a single drive.

You might try Imaging a partition prior to swapping, Norton Ghost or the like.