Cloning RAID?

[Diggs]

I've got a machine on the bench that is running hardware/motherboard (Gigabyte) RAID 1 HDDs. I'm not sure how to clone that to a non-RAID SSD? It's not as simple as pulling one drive and cloning it is it? Thoughts?

 

[Sky-Knight]

It should be, mirrors are very simple like that. Either drive should just work as a source, as long as your SATA controller can read it.

 

[Markverhyden]

^^^^ Yeah, I've done that before with mirrors. Just mount one of the drives on a compatible controller.

 

[Diggs]

Hmmm.... It's just one large NTFS partition yet the computer is set to UEFI. There should be 3-5 partitions on it. Something tells me there's trouble ahead - heh.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Raid 0?

 

[Markverhyden]

For grins I'd fire up a R-Studio scan for a little while and see what it finds.

 

[Diggs]

Well the whole reason I have the computer is that it won't start up unless you move a stick of RAM. If any memory stick is in a slot (and I've tried a dozen different sticks) for more than one cold boot the machine won't boot. It has a Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 MB in it and if you try to boot with no sticks you get a typical memory error (continuous beeping). Drop a stick in slot one and it boots fine. Reboot and all is fine. Shut down and start up again and nothing happens. No beeps, POST, screen - nothing but fans turning. Move the stick of memory to any other slot and it boots fine again until powered down. I dumped the RAID, reset the BIOS, installed Win10 on an SSD and the same thing still happens. It's a nice custom rig with a GTX 1080 in it so I ordered another refurbished MB per the customer request. I thought about a firmware/BIOS upgrade but this started out of the blue so I am assuming the MB is starting to have problems.

@add - This job is taking forever. There is 380 GB of data on C: (and there are two more 4 GB drives in the case almost full with a radio station's library).

 

[nlinecomputers]

Well the whole reason I have the computer is that it won't start up unless you move a stick of RAM. If any memory stick is in a slot (and I've tried a dozen different sticks) for more than one cold boot the machine won't boot. It has a Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 MB in it and if you try to boot with no sticks you get a typical memory error (continuous beeping). Drop a stick in slot one and it boots fine. Reboot and all is fine. Shut down and start up again and nothing happens. No beeps, POST, screen - nothing but fans turning. Move the stick of memory to any other slot and it boots fine again until powered down. I dumped the RAID, reset the BIOS, installed Win10 on an SSD and the same thing still happens. It's a nice custom rig with a GTX 1080 in it so I ordered another refurbished MB per the customer request. I thought about a firmware/BIOS upgrade but this started out of the blue so I am assuming the MB is starting to have problems.

I've seen this with flaky PSUs. I'd swap out the PSU first.

 

[Diggs]

I've seen this with flaky PSUs. I'd swap out the PSU first.

It's a Thermaltake 750 watt 80. I'll drop something else in and see what happens. I've stripped all the drives and the GTX 1080 from the MB long ago. The board is as bare as I can get it.

 

[Diggs]

I'd swap out the PSU first.

No joy.