RMA'ed Maximus VI Formula...replacing SSD and HDD RAID. How to do it?

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Ambidexter

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Hi,

I just replaced a bad Asus Maximus VI Formula board that had an issue. (i.e. went to sleep and never woke up!) I had 2 SSDs in RAID 1, and 2 hard drives also in RAID 1. When the board went to sleep and never woke up, I removed the disks to further troubleshoot the problem.

I will be getting my replacement board in the next few days. Other than telling the BIOS that I'm wanting to use RAID, and making the disks be on the same SATA channels, what do I need to do to be able to boot back into Windows 8 and see that the 2 RAID arrays are OK.

Will the BIOS care or even notice that the board's serial number is different? Does it matter?

Thanks,

Ambidexter
 
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Yea no if its was a RAID 1 it won't matter. If it was a RAID 0 then yes you will need both of if it was any other raid, but yea should be able to toss it in there. Again might have to set the BIOS to autodetect raid and then import the Raid Config into the new Raid Controller
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Not sure how the raid on this works but from my experience with server Raids it will automaticlly pick up the raid configuration that is saved on the hard drive. I would say just make sure its set to the Raid Auto detect if it has one and it should pick up the raid no problem. You may have to go into the Raid Configuration and Import the current Raid Config as well.
 
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Ambidexter

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I wonder if it makes sense to only use one of the two drives for each array? That way, if the process fubars, I could use the other mirror. Also, with each of the member disks, if I only used one would the OS think it's a regular disk? If so, I could do the first disks, and make the arrays after. Sure, it will have to "rebuild" but if I can get it going I'll not care!

With a server RAID, you'd have to go into the card's BIOS first, right? On this board, the Intel RAID is built into the SATA ports. There is a "<CTRL>-H" or "I" maybe, and I'd need to do that first...with the SSDs you'll have to be quick before it tries to boot. I may change it before powering the SSDs on the new board.

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-Ambidexter



 
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No server raids are the same way, or i should say Hardware raids. But yes if you boot only one drive of the array it will see it as just one disk. This way you can see if it detects the raid and if it does it will probably say "Degraded" if it does then it sees the disk. Again may have to go into the CTRL H or I (Usually I) and import the raid config first.
 
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Ambidexter

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OK, I'll let you know how it goes.

I wonder if I need to make sure the original disk is on the original SATA channel for the RAID to work correctly. If I do the "both members at once" option. If I just do the one disk, it shouldn't matter, right?

-Ambi



 
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Yea no if its was a RAID 1 it won't matter. If it was a RAID 0 then yes you will need both of if it was any other raid, but yea should be able to toss it in there. Again might have to set the BIOS to autodetect raid and then import the Raid Config into the new Raid Controller
 
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