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by alainvinent3

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I would like to ask how to repair the redundancy of the RAID 1 using the adaptec storage manager. The Raid 1 was in degraded status. One of the two disk might be broken. How to replace this and fix the Raid to optimum?

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by churdoo

In the Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM), you should be able to find which disk is failed, and should be able to identify which physical disk, either by SCSI ID, or by using the BLINK DISK feature in the ASM, so you don't remove the wrong disk.

Once you've identified which physical disk is bad, If your disks are hot-swappable, simply remove the failed disk, give the controller time to process the disk removal event (about 10 seconds), then slide in the replacement disk. Verify with ASM that REBUILDING status has begun.

If not hot-swappable, you need to power down the system, remove the bad disk, install the replacement disk, power up the system, and confirm REBUILDING status.

by alainvinent3

Thanks, for the help. Is the replacement disk a new blank disk, same model and size with the good one?

by churdoo

Yes, preferably, for optimum performance. You can actually use a replacement disk that's different as long as it's the same or greater size than the original, but for optimum performance, same model/sizes accross a given array are best.

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