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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hi.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">While I agree with
Shachar about the advantages of software RAID, this is not true. All
modern RAID controllers maintain a replica of their configuration on
all disks. This allows easy RAID controller migration between *similar*
RAID controllers. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">If you ship the disks
to another server using the same RAID controller (for HP servers,
interoperability is available between almost all RAID controllers, but
for Dell I don't know), and you insert them
_at_the_original_slot_order_, there should be no problem. You will be
able to Import/Activate your array and be happy with it.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Ez</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Shachar Shemesh wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:49A7D34C.1020003@shemesh.biz" type="cite">Noam
Rathaus wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi,
<br>
<br>
I have a server abroad that has a RAID setup - that server has died - I
bought another computer but now I want to take disks that I have
"prepared" here in Israel on the same computer setup with RAID and ship
them.
<br>
<br>
Is it possible to somehow instruct the RAID setup on the new computer
(in the US) to use those disks?
<br>
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The computer is a DELL PowerEdge R200 with SAS6iR:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd">http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd</a>
<br>
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Details on such a procedure are scarce.
<br>
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One of the greatest problems with hardware raid is that you need the
actual controller in order to access the disks. Sorry.
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Shachar
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