You just don’t know how many working hours the drives have. When one drive already failed, it is likely that the others can fail too. The other drives out of the used system we use as single HD’s for second ot third back-up storage. We always buy 5 drives, one drive as a spare, which is stored, just in case. You have to use a set of drives out of the compatability list of Promise. When we buy a used system, we swop all drives and replace them for new ones. Secondly – in this system all drives atm are 1TB – could I swap them all out for 2TB drives?Would that work on the Promise Peg R4? The drive I bought was a Samsung HD – I got that right – but do you think I should change out the WDC drive for another Samsung? Is there a high chance of that failing? You guys are correct – I bought the Raid on ebay 6 months ago and it’s only now that a drive has gone bad on me. So now my raid array and other info looks like this (see images) which I think means I’m back in the right place Consequently I managed then to unconfigure it and performed a disk array build and have now managed to get it into the same raid array as the other drives.
My situation now is that I figured out that somehow I’d put the new drive into it’s own Raid array. First up, thanks a mill for the replies – hugely appreciated! Second apologies for some incorrect information on my part – the raid was (and still is) set to Raid 5 – when I wrote the post I was a bit scrambled and managed to mess that up – not exactly helping myself there.
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