upgrading raid 1

[ofr057]

Hello's

being a storage solution noob I was wondering if someone could offer some help

 

 

this morning to my dis pleasure i discovered one of my disks in my raid 1 has failed.

firstly how do i actually work out which physical disk has failed?,

also i was thinking on upgrading from 1tb wd blacks to 2tb wd reds (or 3tb's but i think they dont work on old rigs?) - how do i go about doing this on a old 1366 rig?

 

anyways helps would be great

[Vitalius]

Hello's

being a storage solution noob I was wondering if someone could offer some help

 

this morning to my dis pleasure i discovered one of my disks in my raid 1 has failed.

firstly how do i actually work out which physical disk has failed?,

also i was thinking on upgrading from 1tb wd blacks to 2tb wd reds (or 3tb's but i think they dont work on old rigs?) - how do i go about doing this on a old 1366 rig?

 

anyways helps would be great

You should probably label them when you put them in. Just saying. 

Easiest way to tell is to remove one and see if you can still access the files. If you can, you removed the right one. If you can't, put that one back in and remove the other one. You can't do that with other RAID types (0, 5, 6, and 7), but with RAID 1, that's perfectly fine.

I would copy/paste everything from the 1TB to the new drive, then RAID 1 that drive with a drive just like it (not the 1TB). The 3TB limit comes from OS, Storage Controller firmware and BIOS compatibility. I'm not sure, but I think if you use a RAID card it should see them fine. I have little experience dealing with that stuff.