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chouex
Adept I

Is it safe to Initialize one failed disk in raid1 Array? (recover a failed raid 1 disk)

I am trying to rebuild the failed disk.

without affecting the normal disk.

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The document said Initialize one disk in array just make array critical(not offline). Just want to confirm here

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I want to try rebuild the failed one to see if it still working.

If it failed again I would buy a new disk.

I think amd is missing some tutorial in case 1 raid disk failed.

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chouex
Adept I

1. after Initialized the failed disk, the failed disk show as REMOVED. I could still access the files in array.

2. can not set new Initialized disk to spare in windows.

3. reboot into BIOS could set the disk to global spare.

4. after reboot into windows see the restore started. (and another RAID1 group appeared)

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5. waiting the restore progress finish...

6. almost 3 hour later, The rebuild finish.

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7. restore successfully

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note: you can replace the failed one with a new drive in step 1 and Initialize the new drive

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waltc
Miniboss

Initializing a disk = formatting a disk, which destroys all the data on that disk.

Standard RAID levels - Wikipedia

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chouex
Adept I

1. after Initialized the failed disk, the failed disk show as REMOVED. I could still access the files in array.

2. can not set new Initialized disk to spare in windows.

3. reboot into BIOS could set the disk to global spare.

4. after reboot into windows see the restore started. (and another RAID1 group appeared)

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5. waiting the restore progress finish...

6. almost 3 hour later, The rebuild finish.

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7. restore successfully

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note: you can replace the failed one with a new drive in step 1 and Initialize the new drive

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