Raid0 (Stripe)

[nihilisticmonk]

Hi guys,

Question here I can't find the answer to.

I'm selling up my 2007 mac-pro, and putting an order in for a 2008 macpro.

I've got a raid0 array setup using osx (no stand-alone raid card).

Can I yank out the raid 0 array from this macpro, and bung it into the new macpro and expect it to work?

IT'll be a bit of a pain to transfer 640gb off them, just to transfer it back again once the stripe is setup again on the new box.

I know raid0 is a risk etc, all important info on this is backed up, but there is a tonne of gigs worth of info I could stand to loose (dvd rips, media files etc).

Anyone know if it'll work on a new machine?

 

[FJ218700]

I'm pretty sure that a striped RAID requires the system software to control it.

I don't think it will be retained after the switch.

 

[joegomolski]

I had a raid setup like yours.

There was an occasion, when I ejected the array.

When I finished with my job, I plugged the striped HDDs back in, and everything was where it was.

Moving from 1 mac to another, I don't know. Have you called Apple Tech Support, 800.275.2273?

Good luck

 

[HD Shooter]

SO far so good

Hi,

I went from a G5 dual to a new mac pro 2008 early. I took the two 500gb drives config in raid 0 (not redundant) and plugged them right into my new mac pro and VIOLA! THere they were with the info right on it no problem

I was amazed but it worked so flawlessly.

Plug and play baby!

 

[FJ218700]

thanks for the update,

good to know

 

[velocityg4]

I am sort of surprised that worked. Now try doing that with a Windows PC

Yay another win for Apple.

 

[blodwyn]

I set up a RAID Mirror on 2x Crucial Thumb drives for all my personal and business files which I sync'ed between work and home systems - I didn't particularly need the RAID Mirror, but I did it because I could, OK?

With Leopard, I can freely plug and play the pair of Thumb drives in various systems without any hiccups. Tiger was not so happy to do this, I didn't lose any data, but one side of the Mirror would not get picked up without rebooting the system.

So I should say that you should be fine to move your RAID volume over.

 

[HD Shooter]

Agreed

Yes it is really a feather in the apple cap that we are able to just do this This is why people just love these machines. It just works