Drive Manager is telling me that the RAID status on one of my 2TB Studio lls is degraded; on further checking DM says that Disk A is missing. Since it’s a RAID 1 configuration I haven’t lost any data, and I’ve now copied all the data onto another RAID drive, so everything is backed up.
My understanding is that I should replace the missing disk with an identical disk with identical firmware, and the RAID will rebuild itself. However since I’m in Russia I anticipate problems finding an identical disk, and even if I do it may not have the same version firmware as the sick disk.
So what are my options? Will an identical disk with different firmware work? Could I reformat the sick drive in another enclosure and see if that helps? Or wipe the data on the My Book & try reformatting both disks? If I just throw away the sick disk will the My Book continue to work with just one disk? That way I could at least use it as a 1TB back-up drive.
I haven’t dealt with RAID issues before, so I’d be grateful for any advice.
Thanks in advance,
Jeremy Nicholl
