On 07/23 03:10 , Rob Owens wrote: > My goal is to be able to take my hard drive (operating system and pool) > and install it in any other "spare" machine and have it operate. If I > had a 3ware RAID controller in the original server, would I need a 3ware > RAID controller in my spare machine?
Yes. > Or would I be able to hook it > directly up to the motherboard's IDE (or SATA) controller and use it > like that? No, but with an ARCO RAID device you can (as I understand it; don't have hands-on experience with one yet). http://www.arcoide.com/product_overviews.php#EzRAID They indicate that you can use one of their controllers to duplicate any arbitrary drive without doing anything to it; so presumably you should be able to take a drive out of their array and use it unmodified without the array controller. They cost a lot more than a 3ware card tho. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
