OSX Reinstall Question: Will new install see raid array on internal drives?

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  1. BillsFanNC, Apr 14, 2013

    BillsFanNC macrumors newbie

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    Hello. First thanks in advance for taking a look at this thread. I have a MacPro that has been through many upgrades. I have gone through a couple of internal and external drives and now things are acting very strange. I want to do a fresh install of the OS.. The mac has 4 drives in it. 1 boot volume, 1 broken raid volume that used to be a backup volume and I just added 2 1TB drives in an array that I created to backup all my important files. My question is this:

    If I erase the Drived 1 and 2 to perform a fresh install of the OS from the recovery volume, will the new install automatically see the raid volume on 3&4?

    Any advice is greatly appreciated
     
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  2. Bear, Apr 14, 2013

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    If I understood you correctly, drives 3 & 4 are a raid set.

    All disk volume and raid information is stored on the drives themselves, so as long as you don't erase the wrong drives, you will be fine.
     
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  3. BillsFanNC, Apr 14, 2013

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    Yup.. Thanks for the reply Bear.

    I thought that was the case, but I wanted to make sure.
     
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