M. Adam Davis wrote:

> One of the major advantages of RAID 1 is that you can take one of the
> disks, at any time, and plug it in somewhere else with no RAID card, and
> it'll work fine.  RAID configuration is held at the very end of the disk
> for all the controllers I've worked with, so really trying to find the
> exact same MB or chipset or controller card is a non-issue.

Clint Sharp wrote:

> Buy a controller that you can transfer between motherboards or use
> software mirroring so you can transfer the drives to another machine if
> the motherboard dies a nasty death. If you rely on an integrated RAID
> controller then you need to get the same type of motherboard or
> something *very* similar. In the case of a clone machine this could turn
> out to be impossible.

Richard Benfield wrote:

> For raid 1 I wouldn't agree with you we have had several problems on our
> system with data glitches or drive failures its always been a simple
> matter of taking the drive out and putting it into another pc to clone
> it just in case before placing back in the original pc  with a new drive
> so that the mirror can be rebuilt . Its always worked. and this is
> between different chipsets or add-in raid cards.

Some say this works, some say it doesn't. Does anybody have something
conclusive? In the end, you probably should try it if you want to use
hardware RAID1, and take one of the drives and try to boot from it.

Gerhard

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