Raid 1 help

obviouslytom

obviouslytom

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I have a Raid 1 setup here at home and one of the drives is clicking and has caused me to rebuild the raid a few times now. If I go into the raid setup and tell it to take one of the drives and revert it to a non-raid drive, do I lose the information on it or will I be able to boot from it without issue?
 
You Should be able to disconnect the malfunctioning drive and still work with the good one for a while......but replace that malfunctioning drive asap with a new one so it can mirror the raid again........this is the purpose of a raid 1......if you didnt have a raid 1 and that 1 drive failed you would not be running right now and would of probably lost all your data on that drive.
 
can I, after pulling the bad drive, disable the raid 1 and continue as normal?
 
No need to disable RAID 1 if you plan on replacing the second drive, which I would recommend.....in case your other drive goes as well.
 
I would just like to clarify what was said here. If one HDD in the raid 1 set dies, could you disable RAID and use the remaining drive in a standard single drive IDE mode as a bootable disk or would you need to use data recovery software to say, for instance, repair the MBR?

Are there pitfalls or negatives to using RAID 1 as a backup system (Aside from excess wasted space)? Could the critical failure of one drive corrupt data on the other drive?

Also, in terms of using RAID 1 as a backup configuration. Would it be preferable to just have a secondary drive that you run automatic scheduled backups to?
 
RAID1 is not a backup system. RAID can never replace a backup. And no home user should have to use RAID1 for data protection; its the wrong tool for the right purpose.
 
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