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Win7 Software RAID
I am currently using my motherboard's fakeRAID capability (AMD 890FX chipset) to create a RAID1 array (separate from my boot drive, of course). I was considering switching to a win7 software RAID implementation, the idea being if I switched motherboards or addon cards I wouldn't have to recreate the RAID array (plus, I've heard that software RAID tends to be slightly better than fakeRAID at throughput and cpu load). However, one of my friends told me that, at least in previous versions of windows, RAID arrays created in win software were specific to that particular windows installation. So, if I lost my boot drive, I would lose my RAID array as well. Can anyone comment on this? If I create a software raid array in win7 and later reinstall the operating system or move the array to another computer with the same operating system, would it still properly recognize the array?