The RAID migration feature in the Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition is an advanced software technology that enables a properly configured PC, known as a "RAID Ready" system, to be easily converted into a high-performance RAID 0 configuration by simply adding a second Serial ATA hard drive (of equal or greater capacity) to the system and invoking the RAID migration feature from within Windows* using the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition utility.
The migration to a RAID 0 configuration is performed without the traditional requirements of an operating system re-install. All applications and data remain intact.
The migration process itself can take up to two hours depending on the capacity of the hard drives being migrated, but the system is still fully functional while the migration is being performed, and it is possible to conduct other activities such as surfing the Web and/or running productivity applications while the system is being migrated. The only limitation is that some disk intensive tasks may experience slower performance during a migration.
The RAID migration feature also features advanced safety algorithms to ensure that an interrupted migration does not result in data loss or corruption. If the migration process is interrupted via a power loss or system reset, the migration will resume from the point of its most recent progress upon the next system reboot.
