RAID 0 Failure + Lacie Bigger Disk

[shalanhat]

I have 2 Seagate Barracuda 160 GB drives in a RAID 0 stripe. One of the drives is failing, confirmed with a Seatools test.
Questions:

1. When replacing the bad drive is it a simple swap and plug in the new one or not?

2. Can I use a larger capacity drive or do the capacities have to be identical?

3. What is the professional opinion regarding Hitachi drives? Or what would you recommend?

How do I rebuild the RAID if I decide to go with 2 larger capacity drives?

4. I have a Lacie D2 Bigger Disk 1TB that continuously refuses to detach using Safely Remove Hardware (It's always busy, try later) and more importantly it also continuously displays Delayed Write Failed errors. Lacie support don't bother responding.

Thanks.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by shalanhat I have 2 Seagate Barracuda 160 GB drives in a RAID 0 stripe. One of the drives is failing, confirmed with a Seatools test. Questions: 1. When replacing the bad drive is it a simple swap and plug in the new one or not?

Replacing the drive is simple...unplug and unscrew the old drive, screw in and plug in the new drive.

Originally Posted by shalanhat 2. Can I use a larger capacity drive or do the capacities have to be identical?

Should be identical.

Originally Posted by shalanhat 3. What is the professional opinion regarding Hitachi drives? Or what would you recommend?

I personally wouldn't use Hitachi drives as I still remember the IBM Deskstar fiasco. But I understand they're actually better than the original IBM Deskstars.

Originally Posted by shalanhat How do I rebuild the RAID if I decide to go with 2 larger capacity drives?

Sorry, can't help you there...I don't use RAID.

Originally Posted by shalanhat 4. I have a Lacie D2 Bigger Disk 1TB that continuously refuses to detach using Safely Remove Hardware (It's always busy, try later) and more importantly it also continuously displays Delayed Write Failed errors. Lacie support don't bother responding.

Sorry, can't help you with that either.

Cricket

[EzyStvy]

Guessing you know that part about lose one drive lose all data. Meaning once you set the raid back up you have to do a fresh install.