Clone single drive from a raid 5 array

[stefan.mittelmeier]

Hi Community,

I built a raid 5 array in my pc, but sometimes when I boot my pc it interrupts booting and tells a wrong smart state at sata port 2 -> press F1 to go to BIOS. I press F1, - go to BIOS, - Exit BIOS without saving an pc boots up without any problem. The drive is a raid drive but CrystalDiskInfo doesn't show any difference to the other drives in the raid, and I never got any failure during run time and my pc runs the whole day from dawn till dusk.

But anyway, I want to replace the drive. As the drive is a 6TB drive and it works fine after booting I would rather like to clone the drive and replace it then to repair the raid by simply replacing the defective drive with a new one, because it wouldn't stress all raid drives and it would be faster.

What do you think? Do you agree with that and if so which software my I use to do so?

Please tell your opinion, thx

 

[USAFRet]

No, you can't just clone the contents of a single drive in a RAID 5.
Just put in a new drive and let the array rebuild itself. Yes, it will take some hours to do this.

 

[stefan.mittelmeier]

@USAFRet

thx for your reply. Yes, I feared that. But may I ask you, what you would do in that situation? Would you replace the drive immediately, or would you wait until the drive fails? As I said it works fine when powered up. Only at boot time I sometimes get the error message. Thx for you answer.
kind regards

 

[USAFRet]

@USAFRet

thx for your reply. Yes, I feared that. But may I ask you, what you would do in that situation? Would you replace the drive immediately, or would you wait until the drive fails? As I said it works fine when powered up. Only at boot time I sometimes get the error message. Thx for you answer.
kind regards

1. Is the drive still under warranty?

2. I would determine the exact cause of the issue. Is it the drive? Or possibly the cable or some other connection issue?

Does the RAID diagnostics point out that specific drive as the problem child?
Either way, I'd look into replacing that drive soonest.

 

[stefan.mittelmeier]

@USAFRet

Hi gain,

1. Is the drive still under warranty?
No, warranty ended 04/16

2. I would determine the exact cause of the issue. Is it the drive? Or possibly the cable or some other connection issue?
This I still have to do

3. Does the RAID diagnostics point out that specific drive as the problem child?
No. As I told before there is no issue during run time. No RAID diagnostic, no hd tool nothing. Only sometimes the error message from BIOS during booting.

But let me ask again to my idea of cloning the drive. I've a dual hd docking station (freecom duplicator) which can clone hds at lowest level even without connection to a computer. Shouldn't this work?

regards

 

[USAFRet]

But let me ask again to my idea of cloning the drive. I've a dual hd docking station (freecom duplicator) which can clone hds at lowest level even without connection to a computer. Shouldn't this work?

regards

It might work.
It might fail completely.

If you have a good backup of all the data, try it.

 

[stefan.mittelmeier]

Ok, thx for supporting me, bye.