Originally Posted By: drakino
I could take a 1995 era Compaq server with some old SCSI drives in an external enclosure connected to the same 1995 era raid card, and follow these steps to migrate it to my 2008 HP server

That is very cool and I didn't know such deeds were possible. But I still suggest that there's an element of luck there in that your RAID vendor didn't go out of business in the intervening thirteen years.

Peter