RAID array issues

James J · 2 Jul 2011 at 03:12

I appear to be having some issues with Disk 1 in my raid array which is in my sig. I noticed that for some odd reason I'm using 200gb more hdd space than I should be judging from the contents of the drive itself when highlighting everything and going to properties and waiting for the counter to finish.

Due to that, I went into diskmanager and discovered that disk 1 has errors on it and when I reactive the drive, it immediately goes back into the "offline" state again. Both drives are still fully usable, yet I have 200gb which is unaccounted for and this erroneous message on disk manager. Ideas?

Surveyor · 2 Jul 2011 at 10:00

How is your RAID even working?

If one drive dropped out of a RAID0 array then the array would fail and you wouldn't be able to access any of the data.

2x500GB disks in RAID 0 will show as 931GB in Windows. The difference between the decimal Gigabyte HDD's are measured in and the binary Gibibytes Windows uses.

This may account for some of your "missing" space.

James J · 2 Jul 2011 at 13:10

931gb is still showing and it still works. Set it up via disk manager so its software striping as my SSD hated the raid setting in bios so had to keep it at AHCI. I did a HDtune complete scan of disk 1 and this is what it showed:

Surveyor · 2 Jul 2011 at 13:13

Then it's time to back up all your data and RMA the faulty drive(s) assuming they're still in warranty.

James J · 2 Jul 2011 at 13:15

They are as the entire computer is only around 2 months old lol. Yeah was afraid of that -.-

James J · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:54

hdd is now getting worse as my raid array was unavailable until I reactivated the disk in disk manager -.- I've got a thread open in the customer service part on here with more indepth info to see what my choices are but its safe to say its ******

Surveyor · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:31

Like I said, back up your data now if you haven't already.

The next time it might not work at all.

James J · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:57

Surveyor said:
Like I said, back up your data now if you haven't already.

The next time it might not work at all.

already done