I have a 3ware Escalade 3006-2 hardware raid card with 2 new hard drives.

Everything is fine, but I'm wondering what happens if there is a
degradation in one of the drives?

Is the RAID BIOS smart enough to know that bit error has occured and does
it take care of it for me, or do I have to take the disks out of the RAID
to run surface scans on each from time to time?


Related question:

Will ChkDsk ever discover lost clusters or other errors before there is a
total drive failure on a mirrored system?



-Bel

Lost clusters may be found even when a drive is physically 100% healthy.
Hard drives can go from healthy to dead in under 2 seconds, you can have a total drive failure in the blink of an eye, even though
chkdsk reported no problems only an hour ago.

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"BelindaC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:1069725120.203169@rh9cache2...
> I have a 3ware Escalade 3006-2 hardware raid card with 2 new hard drives.
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> Will ChkDsk ever discover lost clusters or other errors before there is a
> total drive failure on a mirrored system?
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> -Bel