RAID O with Intel Storage Manager. Trouble with one disk: Error Occured
Hi,
I've got a new a PC setup with a 2 hard disk in RAID0 using Intel Storage Manager.
Everything was ok during the install.
Windows XP SP3 is the OS.
this morning I had a problem: My Windows freezed, and I reboot the PC.
after the reboot, I had an alert from Storage Manager saying that one disk is going down and a failure is being occured.
I have a complete backup of the PC but I'm not sure that this will resolved the problem....
I've got a new a PC setup with a 2 hard disk in RAID0 using Intel Storage Manager.
Everything was ok during the install.
Windows XP SP3 is the OS.
this morning I had a problem: My Windows freezed, and I reboot the PC.
after the reboot, I had an alert from Storage Manager saying that one disk is going down and a failure is being occured.
I have a complete backup of the PC but I'm not sure that this will resolved the problem....
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It's not clear from your post what the specific error is that you received. Open the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. From what you stated, I'd expect the array to be shown as "Normal" and one of the member disks to be listed as either "Failed" or "Smart Event Occured." If it's listed as Failed, this indicates that multiple read and/or write attempts failed to that disk. You can right-click on the disk to tell the RAID driver to ignore the past events and continue on as if nothing happened. If you have a SMART event, this indicates that the drive is reporting that it is at increased risk of failure in the near future. A study done by Google indicated that while there is an increased risk of failure within a few monts after the first SMART event received for a drive, it is not an overall good predictor of hard drive failure. You can right-click on the drive to tell the RAID driver to ignore this as well. Of course, either of these conditions indicates a higher likelihood of problems, but may not be cause for panic. Especially with RAID0, backups for any important data is critical, and it sounds like you've got that covered.
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Thanks anyway.