Raid 5, Matrix Storage Controller

[Nasty_Savage]

One of my drives keeps degrading. When I try to replace it, a second disk reports as being non-raid and makes the array unbootable. I can however put the bad disk in, reset it to non-raid and then boot and rebuild? Extremely annoying, anyone have any ideas? What's the point of raid 5 if I can't replace a 'bad drive'? I am thinking its either this shitty motherboard, or the Matrix controller itself.........

 

[iroc409]

the intel matrix raid, on intel boards, is incredibly robust (even if it is pseudo-raid). are you using WD drives? they have an error recovery issue that often causes them to drop out of raid arrays.

 

[Nasty_Savage]

They're actually seagates, see sig of conroe system. Its very strange, this one drive drops out but I can rebuild it all the time. It takes like 20 hours though to rebuild it. I just read about the jumper for the 300 transfer speed, I'll have to check that.