Replacing and Rebuilding a Degraded RAID Volume

In the event of a hard drive failure in a RAID level 1 volume, you will need to replace the hard drive and resynchronize the RAID volume.

1Replace the failed drive with a new drive of the same type and capacity (or larger capacity).

2Check your management application or the RAID Configuration Utility (Ctrl-C) to ensure synchronization started automatically.

NOTE: Proceed to step 3 only if synchronization does not begin automatically.

3Enter the RAID Configuration Utility (Ctrl-C).

4From the Adapter List screen, select the controller that contains the degraded RAID volume.

5From the Adapter Properties screen, select RAID Properties.

6Press <Alt+N> until the degraded RAID level 1 volume is in view, then select Manage Virtual Disk.

The screen shows the RAID volume with a status of “Degraded”.

7Select Add Secondary Disk and select a drive from the list of available drives.

The new hard drive automatically begins to sync with the drive of the degraded RAID level 1 volume.

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