Raid 1 Going Critical

[Tien23]

Hello All,

I have an HP e9220y as seen in the link below:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01859815&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4007333


I used the integrated AMD RAID controller to set up a simple RAID 1. I am using the following 2 hard drives:

Seatgate ST31000340AS 7200 rpm3GB/s 32MB cache on SATA port 1
Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 7200 rpm 3GB/s 32MB cach on SATA port 3

I have successfully set up the RAID a couple times now and even removed and formatted a drive so I could add it back to the RAID to ensure it would rebuild. Everything rebuilt fine. However both times my RAID goes critical within 2 weeks. The AMD RAID software can see both physical drives but it says the logical drive is critical. SMART tests show both drives to be fine.

I am wondering if the problems are happening because of the 2 different brands of drives but as you can see, the drive statistics are the same.

Any thoughts, input, or suggestions would be helpful.

 

[inzone]

Any time you use two parts from two different companies you will find slightly different things about the item because each company weill do things just a little different. Are both HDD's both the same capacity and is the usable space on each the same?

 

[Tien23]

For some reason I kept getting errors when I went to post this thread and apparently I accidentally posted 5 of the same threads...

Let me direct you to:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/278401-32-raid-critical