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The hard drive members of a RAID volume can be moved to another system and the contents of that RAID volume can then be accessed. This may be necessary in the event of a motherboard failure.
Requirements
The new system must support Intel® Matrix Storage Technology (i.e. RAID) as well as the RAID volume level of the RAID volume on the hard drives being moved.
As an example, a RAID 5 volume should not be moved to a system with the Intel® 82801ER I/O controller hub (ICH5R) because that I/O controller does not support RAID 5.
Warning
If the new system includes a different I/O controller than the one on which the RAID volume was created, you should not attempt to boot to the RAID volume. You should boot to an operating system on another non-RAID hard drive or RAID volume and from there, access the contents of the original RAID volume.
As an example, if you are moving a RAID 0 volume created on a system with the Intel 82801ER I/O controller hub (ICH5R) to a system with the Intel® 82801GR I/O controller hub (ICH7R), you should not boot to the RAID 0 volume, but should install an operating system on a non-RAID hard drive or a new RAID volume and access the contents of the original RAID 0 volume from within that OS.
If the new system includes the same I/O controller, this warning does not apply.
Identify your Intel® I/O controller hub
This applies to:
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