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Asus P5W DH SATA RAID

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Blueaura

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I'm new to OC Forums so I first want to say hello. Secondly I have a bit of a problem which I hope you guys can help.

I have recently been having problems with my graphics card which I have sent of for testing, although yesterday the lab I sent it to confirmed to problem was not with the graphics card which leads me to thinking the problem must be my motherboard somewhere.

I have an Asus P5W DH motherboard powering my E6300 Core2Duo. The set up has 4 SATA hard drives using the boards Silicone Image hardware RAID as RAID-0 on two drives and the boards Intel Matrix software RAID on two drives as RAID-1.

The problem I face is moving my RAID set-up over to a new motherboard mainly with my two RAID-1 drives. Will I be able to set up the new board on the RAID-0 drives and then be able to plug both RAID-1 drives into the new motherboard without having to format them or corrupt the array, keeping the data they hold?

Any ideas?

Also for a E6300 is it worth replacing my poorly overclocking P5W DH with a nVidia 680i board or an Intel 965?
 
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First of all, Wellcome to OcF ! :)

Assuming you're moving to same ICH8R or same as current ICH7R, then your Raid 1 will survive, check the storage section as many have done that including my self. Dunno about that Silicon Image ?

Just wondering, why use the Silicon Image as raid controller ? Intel Matrix controller is far superior and it can accomodate both raid volumes (0 and 1).
 
Blueaura said:
The Silicon Image is hardware RAID, so linux will run without messing my array up with dmraid ;) One being advantage that drew me to the P5W in the first place.

One click -> here :D

But since you're on linux, guess ICHxR raid is not a good choice since Intel doesn't support them ! :rolleyes:
 
bing said:
One click -> here :D

But since you're on linux, guess ICHxR raid is not a good choice since Intel doesn't support them ! :rolleyes:

Actually no, it's the Silicon Image 4723 Hardware RAID controller ;) look here

ICH7R/8R are both fully linux compatible but as with any software RAID controllers they only fool windows into thinking it is a RAID array, not linux. So when you set it up in linux you need to use the dmraid software to build the array. ;)

Back to the 680i dilemma...
 
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