Raid 1 failed with both drives failed.

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Raid 1 failed with both drives failed.

I have been having problems with Raid 1 for some time with it crashing on a daily basis. Up until now, it has recovered itself, but now in disk utility, it stated that both disks had failed. I deleted the raid array which should have given me 2 individual disks, but the iMac is refusing to see them although they are visible in disk utility.

Anybody able to advise me on what I can do to rescue the disks without doing an erase and losing all the data?

I'm running the array on 2 identical Samsung 2Tb external drives.

Posted on Jul 4, 2014 1:45 AM

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Jul 4, 2014 2:29 PM in response to BigBruce354

Can you repair the disks with Disk Utility? It is probably going to be a restore from you backup though.

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Jul 4, 2014 3:09 PM in response to rack0 tack0

I can do nothing with them. I've even tried starting the iMac without either disk attached and then adding just one of them, but it identifies it as a raid disk and won't let me do anything with it. I suspect it's going to be an erase and restore from the back up.

Thinking of giving up on this raid lark. It crashes at least once a day and it's not like i'm using the disks heavily. Think I'm just going to use Time Machine to back up the data.

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Jul 4, 2014 11:37 PM in response to BigBruce354

I agree, dump the Raid array.

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