How reliable is onboard RAID1?

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rmd3003

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I'm planning on building simple storage server with MS server 2008. With 6 connectors on MB i'm planning on using RAID1 for OS and storage. My thinking is if OS drive fails and it's RAID1 I can just replace it and keep going without having to reinstall. So question is how reliable onboard RAID1 is? Also when data is stored on RAID1 is it accessible if I just pull drive or data stored in proprietary format?

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rmd3003 said:
I'm planning on building simple storage server with MS server 2008. With 6 connectors on MB i'm planning on using RAID1 for OS and storage. My thinking is if OS drive fails and it's RAID1 I can just replace it and keep going without having to reinstall. So question is how reliable onboard RAID1 is? Also when data is stored on RAID1 is it accessible if I just pull drive or data stored in proprietary format?

Thanks
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It should be fine, I've used onboard RAID1 on intel controllers without issue. One of the drives died, it still ran fine, I even pulled the drive and plugged it into an identical chassis and it booted fine. So to answer the question, yes you should be able to pull the drive and read it normally as if it were a single drive.
 
Just remember that RAID 1 is not a backup however. It does protect against a drive failing but not accidental deletion, virus, filesystem corruption ...
 
drescherjm said:
Just remember that RAID 1 is not a backup however. It does protect against a drive failing but not accidental deletion, virus, filesystem corruption ...
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Thanks. Reason I'm asking is that I have couple of old raptors. Installing WHS on them in RAID1 will give me peace of mind knowing that if one of them fails I will just replace it and have server running wihtout having to reinstall. For shares I will have duplication enabled on my Green drives.
 
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