Upgrading G5 – Will my Xserve RAID stay raided?

[Brad Bussé]

If you’re only striping with hardware, then there’s no issue for sure, i.e. – if you have both controllers striped as RAID-5. But I’m not sure about the software side of things. I’m upgrading too and I have mine striped on hardware as 2 RAID-5s that are then software RAID-0 striped (RAID-50). I’m assuming that you just use Disk Utility to rebuild the two RAID-5s back together on the new system. Maybe someone else can clarify.

[Jason Kalinoski]

Saddler, thanks for your response.

I had forgotten about the RAID 50 option, which is how mine is striped.

[Devin Crane]

It will stay raided even in software. We have a raid 50; 2 raid 5s software raided together at raid 0 and have had no problems switching between our G5 and Mac Pro during the upgrade. We have done so between 3 different computers and the Raid did not separate.

[Jason Kalinoski]

Thanks Devin! That will make life easy.

I was starting to wonder how I was going to back up 3tb worth of video…

Jason

[Matthew Nelson]

I would still back up the criticals. Projects, assets not from tape etc. Good practice to do before any upgrade.