I recently had a motherboard die, and used the on board RAID controller to do RAID 1 with two hard drives. I'm wondering if I can take one of the drives and access it normally, in a non-RAID setup.
EDIT: It was an Intel D975XBX2 if that helps.
A:
As RAID 1 should store the exact data on two discs, there is no good reason why there it should change it in any way.
You can do a simple test: make RAID 1, put some data on it, disconnect one drive and put the other one as a regular drive without any RAID and see if it works.
Untrots
2009-02-19 20:49:42
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A:
It depends entirely on the RAID controllers involved. Some RAID controllers will store the data on RAID1 disks the same as if there was no RAID controller used, but many other will store it in a format only readable by that type of RAID controller.
This is one of the reasons why I prefer software RAID, you can move the disks to any machine, regardless of controllers.
andynormancx
2009-02-19 20:51:49