[SOLVED] My dad wants to see with his own eyes raid1 working

[Scar667]

Hi
My dads pc has 1 ssd for the operating system and 2 ssds with raid1 setup for documents

But he doesn't believe it works because he cant open both ssds to check if all the files are in there

What do I do, it even got me skeptical

Here's an image from drive manager, whatsup with the exclamation marks? Why does 1 drive have unallocated space?

https://imgur.com/IPv4Uy1

View: https://i.imgur.com/IPv4Uy1.jpg


I cant remember for sure but I think I set it up in bios

 

[USAFRet]

You can't, mostly.
The OS sees one Volume.

The only way to really tell is :
power OFF
Physically disconnect Disk 0
Power UP
The data is there, the RAID array will report as degraded

then...
Power off
Disconnect Disk 1
Connect Disk 0
Power up

So then you've 'seen' the data existing on both drives.

HOWEVER!
Why does this RAID 1 exist? The typical thought is data protection.

RAID 1 is not that.

It is only good if you really need 100% uptime, in the face of a physical drive fail.
It does little for actual data protection. There are many many other ways for your data to go bye bye.
And accidentally deleted drive is deleted...there is no 'second copy on the other drive'.

Actual backups are the key, not a RAID 1.