Will Raid 8TB External work if one 4TB drive is removed temporarily?

[tdub248]

Hey guys and gals, my computer is at the apple store with graphics problems. In order to recreate the problems I'm having, they need my video files to test. I have an 8TB drive split into 2 mirrored drives, but I feel a little uncomfortable about bringing it in, incase I drop it accidentally something like that. Info on it is too important.

Q - can I remove on of the drives, and have it still work properly for the test? or is it going to give me an error message and prevent me from going further? I'd test this out myself, but the computer is with the Dr.

Thanks!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Generally a bad idea - it will need to wipe and rebuild the drive that you remove once you re-insert it, which is a long process for an array that size. And you'll have no redundancy while that's the case.

You do have a backup, don't you? RAID is not a backup.

Copy a subset of the data onto an external HDD, and bring that.

 

[tdub248]

thanks!