I think my once was great Gigabyte 965 something motherboard has s*** itself. I have a couple of sata drives that are striped together under the raid controller on the motherboard. If I get a Asus P5Q-Pro will i be able to save the data on the drive or will setting them up on the new raid controller wipe them?

tsk tsk tsk, you stripey bastard.

chances are pretty slim ET

ahh nuts. this is going to suck

gigas***e

iirc gigabyte boards have 2yr warranty (cos this is when they usually fail, if not sooner) and asus have 3yr warranty. RA up the board, prob a better chance of gettin your stripe on with it than a diff board. although it may well be highly unlikely...

last edited by Mr Hardware at 20:37:26 06/Sep/08

you might be lucky if you can find the same mobo or the exact controller on another mobo

oh well. I dont think I'll stripe drives any more.

the important thing is to use os level striping, then you would be fine.

p5q uses the ICH10 chipset yer? If it's a similar RAID controller (you probably had an ICH8 or such on your 965) the drives should get recognized and work just fine.

i have moved drives in a strip set between mobos before, but they were both nvidia mobos using the nvidia raid controller.

if you did something similar you would have a good chance of keeping the data intact.

coolio. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for the input guys

Ok, just an epilogue to this.

As icewyrm said and Jim implied, the chipset on the new mothboard was close enough to just pickup the old stripe set and run with it. Yay :)

As it turns out, the old motherboard, memory or CPU where not at fault. It ended up being one of my old IDE drives crapping itself. So, I've ended up upgrading my MB, CPU and RAM anyway (oh well) and anyone who wants the old Gigabyte 965p-ds3p, Dual Core CPU (1.6Ghz) and the 2Gig of ram (Patriot 800 Mghz) can make me an offer.

Thanks for your help on this one guys

rockin!

Dude image that raid and get off the stripe, far to volitile. The performance benefits on the newer SATA drives these days is negligible. If you're looking for performance go get a 128Gb SSD drive (around $600-700) and run your OS off that (watch it boot in half the time), or get a WD Velociraptor 300Gb drive ($300-400). Then just put everything else on a 1TB hdd.

Dude image that raid and get off the stripe, far to volitile. The performance benefits on the newer SATA drives these days is negligible.

Really? Cause I was considering running 2x WD6400AAKS's in RAID-0 and 2x 1TB WD's in RAID-1 for my next system. RAID-0 array for OS/Apps/Games and RAID-1 for storage.

can't really imagine why you'd want your o/s on raid0, the speed gains if any seem like such a low gain for the risk

I've always considered OS/Apps/Games as volatile data (savegames for games is probably the most annoying to lose). Re: OS, I figure it can never be as bad as the Win9x days, one install a week ;).

I suppose if there are basically zero gains for OS/Apps I could just have a RAID-0 array for games... Meh.

yeh personally I just don't see the gain, unless you really need a bigger single partition for some reason, but hard drives come in pretty decent sizes now so this seems less of a need. and decent drives are pretty quick which reduces the attraction raid0 might offer. the problem is that you actually increase the chance of losing your partition because now there's more chance of having a single drive fail and it only takes a single drive failing to lose the data across all the drives in the stripe.

and I vaguely recall reading that many of the raid controllers getting around on mobo's aren't that hot anyway and you're not really getting that much more speed out of raid0 with them, if any at all. all you're really getting is a higher chance of losing data. emphasis on vaguely there

Too late Mass. I've already replaced the OS drive with a 500Gig Seagate SATA drive.

I have my games and s***e on the stripe and stuff I dont want to loose copied on a portable drive :)

I know its not the ducks nuts,but it'll do for a bit.

yeah, I use raid1 for my desktop. downtime from a failed drive would be a pain in the ass.

for storing my shiz i have a windows home server *paging trog to this thread* which i just installed on my old desktop pc and filled up with hard drives.

last edited by ara at 14:06:44 12/Sep/08

Heh, I've calculated that I could do a RAID 10 setup at a similar cost. 6x WD6400AAKS's, resulting in 1920GB of storage with redundancy and performance. :P

6 disks though :\

Raid0
Raid with our the R ... your pc has aids ....

haha

indeed. Raid without the R ftl.