New Dell PC Raid 1 hard Drive Failure

competitionscafe

jollyroger wrote: »

I'll phone on Monday. I purposely bought it as a RAID 1 setup in order to have a backup - never thought it would fail so soon.

I had exactly the same problem on a new Dell 3 years ago - 1 raid drive failed after about a week.

zorber

Slightly off topic

I am running a raid 1 system and i would like to upgrade the hard drives to 1tb from 300gb. If i just take out one drive and drop in a new one would i be right is saying it would copy over a mirror copy then once this is up and running i could do the same with the other drive.

Would the fact i am not using 2 identical size drives be an issue? (ie the first replacement drive would not be the same size as the one its replacing)

Any help appricated
thanks

gaming_guy

I think you would only get 300gb of the 1tb drive unless you have 2 1tb drives and rebuilt the array.

*j*

That's what happened to me.

I had a pair of 80Gb Raid 1 drives, and when one failed swapped I swapped them one at a time for a pair of 160Gb and they still show as 80Gb.

Never mind, they are still only half full.

zorber

thanks for the comments. This is what i feared might happen