Can you reuse m.2 drives that were in raid 0 after the raid had failed?

[bob_100]

So lets say you're running 2 m.2 drives in raid 0 and then the raid fails, can you just format/wipe the 2 drives and reuse them everytime? Or can you forever ruin the drive?

 

[smorizio]

raid drives are jsut how the drive are set up in a pc. there nothing speical about them other then how there formatted.
you can reuse the non failing drive as a non raid drive by wipping it. you lose any data that was on it.

 

[techgeek]

I guess as long as the RAID array didn't "fail" do to a hardware problem then the drives are fine. You can delete the partition info and reformat them again.

 

[bob_100]

I guess as long as the RAID array didn't "fail" do to a hardware problem then the drives are fine. You can delete the partition info and reformat them again.

I heard running your drives in raid 0 can shorten the life of your drives or can cause hardware issues. So when people say a drive died in a raid 0 array, do they mean it died because it was in a raid configuration or simply because the drive was old/ was going to die anyways even if it wasn't in raid.

 

[techgeek]

Drives in a RAID array don't have any shorter a lifespan than a drive on it's own. As long as the RAID array is used in the same manner as the single drive would be. It's not fair to compare a RAID array used in enterprise computing to a single drive used at the consumer level. Actually using drives in a RAID 0 array could actually extend the lifespan as the write wearing would be shared across the two drives. A single drive would end up with twice as many writes as a single drive in the array would.

So to answer the last part of your question, when a drive fails in a RAID array, it was destined to fail regardless. Had it been a single drive used in the same environment, it would have died either way.