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How to replace harddrives on RAID 0 Windows Server 2003 Standard Terminal Server
I have a terminal server sporting Windows Server 2003 Standard. I've been getting some errors from the RAID card that once every 4 or 5 days its getting bad sectors or something and it recommends replacing the hard drives. If I wanted to replace the hard drives how would I do that on the RAID 0? I think I'm going to have to install from scratch and restore a back? Anyone have an idea? The backups are failing and I'm thinking it has to do with the bad hard drives.
Yeah, unfortunately you have to do it from scratch. Try creating an image with Acronis or something similar, replace the drives, recreate the RAID volume, then restore. You can use an Acronis boot CD to restore the image if your system partition is on the same volume and you can't boot. Stay away from RAID0 in general.
RAID 0 is striping with no parity or mirror.
If your RAID 0 array fails, you loose the volume. You cannot replace a hot swappable disk in a RAID 0 and get your data back; there is nothing to rebuild from.
I would suggest replacing the failing drive(s) and rebuilding on RAID 1. Do not use RAID 0 in production.
If your RAID 0 array fails, you loose the volume. You cannot replace a hot swappable disk in a RAID 0 and get your data back; there is nothing to rebuild from.
I would suggest replacing the failing drive(s) and rebuilding on RAID 1. Do not use RAID 0 in production.
My bust... Failure to read properly.
Agreed with multifunctional.
Just to illustrate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
RAID 0 - 2 or more drives combined to virutally look like one drive.
RAID 1 - 2 or more drives mirrored to virtually look like one drive.
RAID 5 is usually the most common RAID configuration.
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Just to illustrate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
RAID 0 - 2 or more drives combined to virutally look like one drive.
RAID 1 - 2 or more drives mirrored to virtually look like one drive.
RAID 5 is usually the most common RAID configuration.
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If the drives are hot swappable, change them one at a time allowing them time to rebuild before doing the next.
Your GUI should be rather informative on the progress during that.
Worse case, you have to power down, replace a drive and allow it time to rebuild.
In sime cases there are prompts during POST that you must follow in lieu of a gui.
GRAB THE CONTROLLER MANUAL AND READ UP FIRST. If you give me the make/model fo the server and controller I can dig it up. I am an HP user primarily.