How to Replace Failed Redundant Boot Drives

45 Drives R&D Engineer Brett Kelly gives you a walkthrough on how to replace your redundant boot drive in the unlikely event that it fails. Since most users opt for redundant boot drives with their Storinator, it is a great tutorial for added server protection.

[tranceformer]

Can anyone help me, I have a old Sony Vaio VGN-AR290G and I'm stuck on the Vaio logo after that i just get a black screen with a blinking underscore in the top left. almost looks like command prompt but its not. I try F8 and cant get to the BOOT menu. I only can get to the BIOS screen with F2. Please can anyone help me?

[fajarrukmo]

thanks very usefull, but how about on windows environment ?

[Jaleel]

May I ask you please I have a degraded hdd drive in a raid 1 array the thing is the pc doesn't even go beyond loading to windows then it goes to powersaving mode and restarts so I don't actually have access to windows, I tried to plug one if them into another pc they don't show up at all no local disks or anything shows up. How do I fix it? I can do the rebuild option from the bios though I have access to that atleast but is it safe?

[Kitmeister]

What software program are you using to show your drives and which one is redundant?

[trinimoses]

isnt there a way for an auto rebuild once it has detected the new drive ??

[chrismoore]

I have one of your storinator systems and I notice that this tutorial was made with a different GUI (mine is MATE) and I was curious if you would be willing to make an updated tutorial for this with more detail for the novice user of MDM.

[ultraflem]

Does the replacement drive have to be formatted? And does it have to be formatted a boot drive?

[davidg]

you cannot do this without shutting it down?

[chrismoore]

What if you want to go to a different size disk?

[VipinVarghese]

If hot swap is enabled, can not we re-build the raid 0 ?

[debugbsd]

Hi, good morning.

I really like the video, but, I would like to ask if is it possible to swap the disk on a Dell T330 (while powered up) which has a Centos 7 system installed on it and configured with LVM? Or is mandatory to turn off the computer to swap the devices and rebuilding the new one?

[jennspaetau]

can this be done on data drives on ntfs format or windows bootdrives that where previously on raid 1?

[QuickQuips]

I'm surprised you don't use the WD Red 2.5 drives as a boot drive.

On a side note, is there a way to move your OS drives to an SSD, or is it necessary to order the boot drives as an SSD off the bat?

[kingneutron]

Was hoping more for a hotswap rebuild with no downtime :-\ You should be able to do this with ZFS on root, but I realize this video is a few years old

[kirankankipati-thelinuxcha]

Hey, BTW, this RAID is software raid ? i.e you haven't set in RAID in BIOS ?
Nice video +1. Thanks a lot for posting.

[axdmlm]

Not that useful unless you have this exact configuration. Boo

[UtwoBed]

That system sucks. A RAID setup should be as simple as just replacing the drive and the RAID system should recognize the drive has been replaced do the rest on it's own. I just discovered that my Intel RAID system is fairly simple... Replace the drive....
Turn on the system.
Click Start.
Click All Programs.
Click Intel.
Click Intel® Rapid Storage Technology.
Click Rebuild to another disk.
Select the replacement hard drive and click Rebuild.
And you are done.