I'm currently using a HP Microserver N36L, and have a N54L gathering dust until I find some time to move everything over..
Currently I have an SSD in the ODD bay, running the OS and 2 x 2TB drives using the on board RAID 1.
If I want to move to the new server, how would I go about this without wiping all my data?!
I'm running W7 Pro (which also supports it's own RAID) which I expect I'll need to move to to utilise the BIOS mod on the N54L..
Question is if I take 1 HD out of the old server drop it in the new server, will I be able to see the data (I assume not - but if I can then may save some time)
If this is the case I can wipe that drive then copy the data over the network to that drive, if I then want to RAID in windows, can I just add the other disk, or will this want to wipe both disks...
I can see me needing to get some more hard disks that I currently don't really need :)
i thought i'd read that the raid config was on the disks on these, so it could be moved?
Potentially, but my current server is running an unmodified BIOS, I want to mod the BIOS in the new server to increase the ODD port speed, but in doing this, you lose the standard RAID.
Also moving to windows RAID should reduce the dependancy on having the right controller to restore in the case of hardware failure.
ive just tried to do this on mine as i've got a disk in with an old windows on it.
so i've now got a basic disk with no os on it, unallocated, i right click it and all spanned/striped options are greyed out. think they should be enabled though, so not sure what im doing wrong.
I've not played with RAID in windows yet, but I think you need to make it dynamic or its jus detecting that there aren't enough available drives to RAID. I don't think you can touch the OS disk. I've got a couple of the 250gb drives sitting around so might give it a go on mine later, for some reason I didn't think about just trying it with another disk!