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Help! Areca SATA RAID is hosed.

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daeedorian

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Welp. Now I've done it.

I have an old Areca ARC-1220 SATA RAID card. I built the RAID tower about 7 years ago, and it contains tons of personal files, not all of which are properly backed up. (I know...)

It has 8 channels, and they're all in use to create one 7TB RAID5 volume. The disks are a mix of 1TB WD Caviar Blacks and some Samsungs.

The issue started when the volume began streaming read errors from Ch1, and I had to unmount it in Windows because it slowed to a crawl trying to access the volume. I assume bad blocks/sectors.

No problem, just need to replace that drive.

Well, here's where I screwed up. I accidentally pulled the wrong HDD, (Ch7) and when I realized this and reconnected it, the RAID set started rebuilding onto Ch7.

The problem is that now the rebuild fails because of the read errors from Ch1, the *actually* dead HDD.

I've read about a tactic involving deleting the RAID Set and recreating it without initialization. Could this potentially work?

Thanks so much.
 
The "LeVeL2ReScUe" function fixed it instantly! The RaidSet is still degraded, but it's no longer trying to rebuild a good drive!

I cannot believe it.

What an incredible relief.
 
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