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RAID 1 vs mobo upgrade - lose everything anyways?
Deusfaux
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldnt' having a RAID1 (mirror) array with 2 drives sort of get fucked with the upgrade of a motherboard?
Since the particular RAID controller would likely change, and thus the RAID couldnt be migrated over.
And since a new array would have to be created under the new controller, all the data would be lost?
Would it not be better in that case to do "manual" mirroring and just remember to backup all your data to the 2nd drive on some kind of schedule, using someting like Synctoy?
That way your OS drive can be reformatted or whatever on mobo changes, and you still have all your stuff backed up on the 2nd drive?
Yes RAID1 would make things "easier" in that you dont have to remember to do everything but it seems to me to have a fatal flaw.
You'd have to back everything up to a 3rd drive or a pile of dvd's before migrating to the new mobo...
Since the particular RAID controller would likely change, and thus the RAID couldnt be migrated over.
And since a new array would have to be created under the new controller, all the data would be lost?
Would it not be better in that case to do "manual" mirroring and just remember to backup all your data to the 2nd drive on some kind of schedule, using someting like Synctoy?
That way your OS drive can be reformatted or whatever on mobo changes, and you still have all your stuff backed up on the 2nd drive?
Yes RAID1 would make things "easier" in that you dont have to remember to do everything but it seems to me to have a fatal flaw.
You'd have to back everything up to a 3rd drive or a pile of dvd's before migrating to the new mobo...
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but since he'd have to migrate to a new raid controller on a new motherboard...
that involves recreating the raid array - ie the new controller couldnt "see" the old raid array.
and creating a new raid array erases everything on the disks. both disks. so the data would be lost unless it's backed up to a 3rd HDD or optical discs or something
If he had a RAID 5 set up or something, maybe, but RAID 1 is just writing everything to both drives at the same time.
If I were him I'd just back up important stuff to CDs and then wing it.
I dunno about you, but I loose a lot more data from a hard drive dying than I do from accidentally deleting stuff.
Still, I'm sure the reverse is true for plenty of people.