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If I was to lose a disk on my RAID 1 array - and I replaced it - wouldn't I still lose all my data again by recreating the array?
(Possible stupid question alert) Re: RAID
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Normally with redudant arrays the array would rebuild itself (in RAID1 that means copying over the data from the healthy disk onto the new disk again), you won't re-create the array as such (as that would indeed destroy the data on the array.) Exactly how the rebuild works would depend on the controller, but typically you'd be able to kick this off or monitor it from the RAID BIOS or via a controller utility when booted.
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what? where did my reply go?
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Ooops sorry I think the bottle of wine I drank had started to kick in by that point lol 
. I thought I had wrote out a second reply but couldn't see it posted.
. I thought I had wrote out a second reply but couldn't see it posted.
Hah...
As Bytejuggler said, as it is a RAID 1, if you replace the drive that broke/failed, your RAID software / RAID card, or whatever it is you used to make the raid / monitor it, should copy all the files from the healthy disk to the new disk you insert into the RAID and start re-building it.
But that may take a while depending on how much data you have
As Bytejuggler said, as it is a RAID 1, if you replace the drive that broke/failed, your RAID software / RAID card, or whatever it is you used to make the raid / monitor it, should copy all the files from the healthy disk to the new disk you insert into the RAID and start re-building it.
But that may take a while depending on how much data you have
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Hah...
As Bytejuggler said, as it is a RAID 1, if you replace the drive that broke/failed, your RAID software / RAID card, or whatever it is you used to make the raid / monitor it, should copy all the files from the healthy disk to the new disk you insert into the RAID and start re-building it.
But that may take a while depending on how much data you have
Two 500GB drives which are filling up fast!
Uh oh..