Hi everybody,
I recently purcahsed a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 motherboard which has an onboard Intel Raid Storage Controller.
Controller info:
The device manager lists it as "Intel(R) ICH8R / ICH9R / ICH10R / DO / 5 Series / 3400 Series SATA RAID Controller".
It has 6 SATA ports and supports up to 3GB/s.
The device works fine, RAIDS are setup through a DOS interface that can be accessed at bootup pressing Ctrl + I. There's also Intel Rapid Storage Technology software which I installed and gives you basic overview over the RAID(s) in Windows.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
Since this is my first time dealing with the Intel RAID controller, I have a few questions:
(1.) I currently have a Raid 1 setup on 2 of the 6 controller. I want to expand this to a RAID 10 (using all 6 ports) without losing my data that I have in the Raid 1. Is that possible ?
--> I did not see an option to do that in the DOS config menu...
(2.) If (for whatever reason) the motherboard ever fails and I have to unplug the 6 RAID 10 HD and would connect them to a different motherboard / Sata controller, would I be able to read the data on the disks ?
Or are the disks (once configured as a RAID) only accessible through this specific Intel RAID controller ?
Thanx for your help in advance !
- M