For 10+ years now, I've had my mom on a 3ware 8006-2LP raid controller that RAID1's her data. She's got an HDD failure and it looks like all of my HDD replacement options aren't compatible with that controller (controller has a maximum of 1TB drives and all hdds smaller than 1TB are old, used, refurbished, etc..). I was wondering if there's a technology that exists with the below features that I should look into instead.
- External Enclosure that houses at least 2 HDD's and performs RAID1
- Has some sort of indicator light on the exterior that lets the user know which HDD is bad or good, so you know which needs replacing whenever there is an HDD failure.
- When the user swaps out the bad hdd and inserts a new one, the enclosure automatically rebuilds the array without any user input
- RAID1 config is stored on the HDDs so if the enclosure fails, you can bring the HDDs to a new enclosure and pickup where you left off