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Thinking of doing 2x 22TB raid 1 on my motherboard (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am thinking of grabbing 2x 22TBs and putting them in Raid 1 using my motherboard SATA ports. The data isn't irreplaceable, so I simply want redundancy against a single failed drive.

However, I have two questions.

- Is the raid controller required to access data on Raid 1 drives? Let's say I take out a single drive, breaking the array, and put it in another system. Would my data still be accessible on that new system outside of the array? It's a simple mirror, so I assume so?

- If I swap my motherboard later, how big of a headache is the process to get raid 1 moved over?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Motherboard raid is pretty standard. It's been 10 years since I've played with it, but back then you could migrate motherboard raid1/5 across any motherboard and even from intel to amd. I doubt it's changed much.

I doubt you'll find official documentation on it though.