My PC is running slow and I noticed on re-boot that an error is reported on one of my two mirrored HDDs. Since the PC is working, but just slow, should I break the mirror and do a disk error check or what?
Windows 10
How it the raid setup software or in the bios in most vases in the bios there may be a check of the raid
Your computer specs seams to have two computers.
Yous should separate the two.
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I suppose you're talking about the DQ45CB. Enter BIOS and go to the RAID configuration to see if the array was created under BIOS.
With the suggestion made that my mirror might be set up in BIOS, I saw on the log-on screen that the RAID configuration was set up under Intel Matrix Storage Manager on ROM. I entered the configuration menu and broke the mirror. The error kept the autorebuild from working and the PC ran as slow as molasses in January.
I did have some trouble trying to fix the errored disk when I attempted to repair it because Windows reported it as a RAW drive. I googled how to convert RAW to NTFS, did that and got things running again, however no longer RAID 1. That's OK for now... I'll create another mirror later.
Hi,
Why bother with raid at all
It was to combine small disks because large ones were expensive
Now large disks are cheap and plentiful making raid silly to use.
It depends on what your objective is. I have about 10 years of personal data stored on my PC. I chose RAID to protect my data with the redundancy of that data, which is exactly what happened. My UPS suffered an internal failure, shutting down the PC suddenly and caused an error on one disk, slowing it down. My original data is preserved, which is what I sought.
Raid is not a backup
System images are.
Disks normally don't get to RAW state. Something went wrong.
Use Crystal disk info for SMART diagnostic
For a complete disk test and diagnostic:
Use WD Diagnostic tool
or
Seagate Seatools
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