When I was taking a nap, my monitors got blank. The PC was unresponsive and I had to do a hard reset. During bootup, one of the RAID 1 HDDs got labled as bad. There were some werid sounds now and then over the last months so I just assumed the HDD physically died.
But before replacing it, I checked it on my other PC. And the HDD was not only working, but it could boot the other PC.
I took the "bad" HDD back to my RAID and in Intel Rapid program on Windows 10, marked it as good. Then, the program rebuild the RAID over the next 9 hours. It worked just fine, but after 1 day, the HDD hot marked as bad again. I rebuilt the RAID again and now I'm keeping my PC on, monitoring if anything happens.
Is the HDD really bad? No weird sonds now or anything. If it was bad, would it even rebuild the RAID at all? Could this be a fault of a SATA or power cable being defective and the HDD losing power/communication for a second, thus destroying the RAID? Are there any steps I can take to make sure it's working? Any programs I could use to diagnose?
But before replacing it, I checked it on my other PC. And the HDD was not only working, but it could boot the other PC.
I took the "bad" HDD back to my RAID and in Intel Rapid program on Windows 10, marked it as good. Then, the program rebuild the RAID over the next 9 hours. It worked just fine, but after 1 day, the HDD hot marked as bad again. I rebuilt the RAID again and now I'm keeping my PC on, monitoring if anything happens.
Is the HDD really bad? No weird sonds now or anything. If it was bad, would it even rebuild the RAID at all? Could this be a fault of a SATA or power cable being defective and the HDD losing power/communication for a second, thus destroying the RAID? Are there any steps I can take to make sure it's working? Any programs I could use to diagnose?