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Asked: 2020-07-07 04:39:33 +0800 CST

Can we move RAID configured disks across different Servers

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I have 2 SSD disks configured as RAID 1 using RAID feature in BIOS. By chance if my motherboard and processor is damaged, can I connect these 2 SSD disks to another Server. Will these SSD disks boot on another Server. If not, is there any solution for making it to work.

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    Dell PowerEdge T30 has a Software RAID (Intel Rapid Storage Controller 12.0) implemented by Intel C236 chipset.

    To be able to boot you need to use a motherboard that has a chipset compatible with Intel C236.

    If you need just to recover the data, you can attach those disks to a Linux machine, or, if you don't have one, boot form a Linux Live CD and use Device Mapper RAID (dmraid) to activate the RAID block devices: dmraid -ay

    You can list the block devices with: lsblk

    Then you will need to activate the partitions or logical volumes, then mount those partitions/logical volumes to be able to see the data.

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