This may have been answered, but I can't seem to find it. My principal uses are storage of music, pictures, video, and occasional HD editing.
I need to move a 3 disk (WD 2TB caviar green) RAID 0 array from a Dell 8300 running XP, to a newly built PC using a Gigabyte p55a-ud3, i7/860, Windows 7 64bit, and make it a RAID 5 at the same time. The drives are currently hooked up to an add-on PCI SATA expansion card using a Silicon Image 3114 chip. I did NOT use the Silicon Image software/chip to control the RAID as it gave me problems, it's in "pass-thru" mode. I'm using XP to do a software raid.
I was reading this post about converting RAID0 to RAID5 and it seems to work but I have a slightly different scenario by also having to move the array.
At this point do I just swap the drives to the new PC and Win 7 will recognize it? or is it better to use the onboard Intel raid controller. If I use the onboard Raid will I need to save all the data somewhere else, built the array then move the data?
Please take it easy on me, I don't want to say I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's my first build and I'm learning as I go along.
I need to move a 3 disk (WD 2TB caviar green) RAID 0 array from a Dell 8300 running XP, to a newly built PC using a Gigabyte p55a-ud3, i7/860, Windows 7 64bit, and make it a RAID 5 at the same time. The drives are currently hooked up to an add-on PCI SATA expansion card using a Silicon Image 3114 chip. I did NOT use the Silicon Image software/chip to control the RAID as it gave me problems, it's in "pass-thru" mode. I'm using XP to do a software raid.
I was reading this post about converting RAID0 to RAID5 and it seems to work but I have a slightly different scenario by also having to move the array.
At this point do I just swap the drives to the new PC and Win 7 will recognize it? or is it better to use the onboard Intel raid controller. If I use the onboard Raid will I need to save all the data somewhere else, built the array then move the data?
Please take it easy on me, I don't want to say I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's my first build and I'm learning as I go along.