aspdaddy - 10:05 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

> so if hardware RAID is being used and a drive dies or one drive is corrupt how does it warn me or does it just stop using that drive in the array?

My raid 5 array was tested like this - grab any drive and just yank it out the server. The lights come on, the other drives take straight over without any problem. Now get a brand new drive out the box and just shove it in, it builds a copy of the data in less than a minute and you are back to normal.

Thats what it does, it protects from downtime and corruption when a drive fails and needs changing.

I think monitoring your drives is a different issue or maybe some RAID software can send a warning to you?