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When one hard drive member of a RAID 5 volume fails or is disconnected, the RAID 5 volume will continue to function, but is in a degraded state. When two or more hard drive members fail or are disconnected, the volume has failed.
If one of these scenarios occurs, refer to the appropriate procedure below to recover or to recreate your configuration.
Degraded RAID 5 Volume
Missing Hard Drive
- Turn off the system.
- Reconnect the missing hard drive.
- Turn on the system. The rebuild will occur automatically.
Failed Hard Drive
- Turn off the system.
- Replace the failed hard drive with a new hard drive that is of equal or greater capacity.
- Turn on the system.
- When the operating system is running, select the Intel® Matrix Storage Console from the Start Menu or click on the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager tray icon.
- Click the View menu and click Advanced Mode.
- Right-click the non-RAID hard drive in the device tree and click Rebuild to this Hard Drive .
Failed RAID 5 Volume
Failed Hard Drives
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When more than one hard drive in a RAID 5 volume fails, the RAID 5 volume cannot be recovered and any data on that volume is lost. This procedure deletes the failed RAID 5 volume and creates a new RAID 5 volume. | |
- Turn off the system.
- Replace the failed hard drives with new hard drives that are of equal or greater capacity.
- Turn on the system.
- Press Ctrl-I to enter the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM when prompted during system startup.
- Select option 2. Delete RAID Volume in the main menu.
- Use the up or down arrow keys to select the failed RAID 5 volume.
- Press Delete to delete the volume.
- Press Y to confirm the deletion.
- Select option 1. Create RAID Volume to create a new RAID 5 volume. You will then need to reinstall the operating system on the new volume.
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