Anyone familar with a RAID 1 array?...**Solved**

Have you tried the "help" button?

mrkoje wrote:
... Now what I would do is throw that windows computer away and get a Mac. Of course my opinion :)

Yeah, because if it was a Mac the hard drive would never fail, right? (NOT!)

Switching to a Mac in this situation would do nothing but lighten the OP's wallet.

A typical raid 1 setup is just having two( or more) hard drives mirroring themselves (making exact copy) for backup or redundancy purposes. In this case it was to your benefit - imagine if you only had one drive with all your data and it failed!

So...

You should be able to replace the failed drive with a new unit and then use the raid manager to rebuild the array. You will most likely have to dive into the hardware settings to get the serial number of the bad drive and then pull and replace it. From my understanding though of raid arrays - (this is from a long time ago) you will want to replace the bad unit with a unit of the same specifications - RPM speed etc..

Alternatively, you could remove the Raid 1 array and rely solely on the good unit. (This isn't the case with other Raid setups) Obviously you would be down a 1TB drive - but you weren't really using it for space to begin with in a Raid 1 config - it was just backup.
This would be a no cost up front solution and could be done through raid manager.

Now what I would do is throw that windows computer away and get a Mac. Of course my opinion :)

Sounds like a problem with at least one of the drives. With a RAID system, some data may be saved, but best get an expert to try and recover it for you. RAID (redundant array of independent disks) was used to improve performance by spreading data across two or more drives, and to provide a level of redundancy for failures. If you are set up for RAID 1 Mirroring, then all data has a full backup, and you are in good shape. With just two drives, everything may be recovered, but like I said, you probably need help.









raid Mirrowing,

Typically somewhere in the raid software there should be a way to get the serial numbers of the drives.

I am not failure with your particular Raid system so I am guessing a bit..

In your case that may be under the Manage button.

You could try clicking on the good HD in the System storage view pane and see if that identifies the good drive serial number..

If you had a hot swap server setup you often get status lights which identify the dead drive for quickly finding the bad one..

You will need a new drive of the same size or larger, the array will rebuild with a larger drive (although you won't get more space). The replacement drive can not be smaller than the current drive size.

If those are Seagates the other drive is living on borrowed time.. I have had a bunch of 1.5TB Seagates die early deaths in a server RAID5 configuration.. You definitely will want to replace the failed drive ASAP.