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Couple of good answers there! I have used Raid 1 mirrors for about 15 years now. The are great when a drive decides to go south. Put in a spare and it rebuilds and you are ready for the next failure. Or keep an extra drive in the box designated to the RAID controller as a spare, like I do and...

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Hello, I am running Win7 Pro on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. everything is on a RAID 1 mirror on a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives (ST3250410AS to be exact). The initial build was fine. I started getting SMART errors so I used a duplicate spare to rebuild the array on. The rebuild ran to...

Hi, Yes, Raid 1, mirror. I inadvertently created another thread on the forum. May want to answer in that one and let this one go dead.

Hi, YES, in RAID mode. (using INTEL not GIGBYTE, this board has both). Yes can see the RAID and enter the RAID BIOS (CTRL-I) when booting. Current Mirror is degraded, 1 disk on PORT 0 with disk on PORT 1 in error and out of array. Used utility in Windows. I looked at initiating rebuild...

OOOPS! Indeed. Mirror not stripe. Sorry!

Sorry, Bad title. I tried to change it but think I posted again. Anyway, I did NOT lose the data, just the mirror. I WAS able to switch back to the original (Port 0) drive and boot. I just can NOT get it to rebuild. It starts the rebuild, runs for an hour or so then blue screens.

Hello I did a Win7 Pro build on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P recently. Set up RAID zero on a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives (ST3250410AS to be exact). Was fine for a week or so then I got a SMART error. I cleared it but got another the next day. I pulled the drive and put in a spare. Used...

Hello I did a Win7 Pro build on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P recently. Set up RAID zero on a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives (ST3250410AS to be exact). Was fine for a week or so then I got a SMART error. I cleared it but got another the next day. I pulled the drive and put in a spare. Used...