How to migrate from a Raid 0 to a SSD and keep the Raid in the same computer

rcardalda · Jun 19, 2014

I have a motherboard Asus P6X58D Premiun with a IntelICH10R controller with 6 SATA 3 ports and a Marvell PCIe SATA 6 controller with 2 SATA 6 ports.
I run Windows 7 from a RAID 0 of 2 WD Black 1 TB drives, conected to the Intel controller.
My question is may I clone the RAID 0 to a SSD and conect it to the a Marvell SATA 6 port and keep the RAID 0 runing conected to the Intel controller?
I can change BIOS Setup to boot from the Marvell SATA 6 controller.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thank you.

geok1ng · Jun 19, 2014

"cloning" your raid0 is the "easy" part. booting from marvel will be much slower. i would try something like this:
1- clone boot volume to ssd
2-test if sdd is bootable
3-use ssd as boot drive, connected to a normal intel sata port

you wll keep your raid0, but i advise you never, ever, use HDDs in raid0 again, HDD die a lot, and in raid0 in lose everything. consider after cloning, dismouting your raid0 and use them as JBOD

rcardalda · Jun 20, 2014

geok1ng :

rcardalda · Jun 20, 2014

Thank you very much Geoking for your answer.
Why you state that booting from Marvell will be much slower, I belived it would be faster because it is SATA 6 GB/s which should be much faster that the SATA 3 GB/s Intel controler?

popatim · Jun 23, 2014

The marvell controller was not designed to run at full sata3 speeds, it was designed to run HDD's which it does well. an SSD will actually run faster on the Intel ports despite them being sata2.

rcardalda · Jun 24, 2014

Thank you very much for your information Popatin.

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