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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/SingleTMat on 2023-10-07 00:08:00+00:00.

I have a PC with an LSI 8 port raid card with 8 drives in a RAID6. Even with trying to be very data retentive, well, even with dual drive failover, RAID6 is still no good at letting you keep and get to your data when your raid card dies. :)

This is new territory for me. Do I need a matching model raid card for that array to be brought back alive? Is there anything I should know that I need to do if I am able to find a like replacement card?

On that topic, the PC that this raid card is in is on the older side. I have some newer hardware I could swap in. Am I able swap motherboard/cpu/ram in this system and move the RAID over as long as it moves with the same card?

  • Paragone
    01·
    1 year ago

    IF you used Linux mdadm raid, and the card was just JBOD, THEN you can use any card / adapter.

    However, IF you used the card’s RAID, THEN you require that model, and possibly that firmware-revision, to be able to access your data.

    the RAID shouldn’t care what hardware is beneath it, so long as it’s x86 ( switching from 1 architecture to another, would be like giving a human-organ-transplant to a crocodile: absolute incompatibility of everything )

    hth