Hi Everyone,
So I have 2, 2TB hitachi deskstar 7k3000's in a RAID 1 array on an MSI P67-GD55 Motherboard using the intel rapid storage technology. I do hear one of the two drives clicking every now and then and am unsure if its just how these drives are or if one of the drives are indeed dying. The thing is, when I run the Hitachi utility to check the drives, they don't show up and I'm guessing it's because I have the RAID controller managing them. Does anyone have any experience with running such a tool on a raid array? Should I just ignore it until the drive dies since I'm running RAID 1 anyway and the drives are mirrored? Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated as I've never had a RAID array before and don't want to dismantle it and cause corruption just to check the drives. Thanks in advance!
So I have 2, 2TB hitachi deskstar 7k3000's in a RAID 1 array on an MSI P67-GD55 Motherboard using the intel rapid storage technology. I do hear one of the two drives clicking every now and then and am unsure if its just how these drives are or if one of the drives are indeed dying. The thing is, when I run the Hitachi utility to check the drives, they don't show up and I'm guessing it's because I have the RAID controller managing them. Does anyone have any experience with running such a tool on a raid array? Should I just ignore it until the drive dies since I'm running RAID 1 anyway and the drives are mirrored? Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated as I've never had a RAID array before and don't want to dismantle it and cause corruption just to check the drives. Thanks in advance!