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‎11-11-2021 09:41 AM - edited ‎11-12-2021 07:43 AM

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Product: xw4400
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

My pc has a fault but the two hardware raid 1 mirror disks are ok.  Will I be able to read them without having to fix the pc.

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‎11-11-2021 11:39 AM

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@AlanWomble -- short answer: yes.

 

A "RAID-1" setup has two disk-drives containing the identical content.

 

It would be best to connect both disk-drives to a different computer, and to configure them as one "RAID-set", so that the content remains identical on the two disk-drives.

 

But, you could connect just one disk-drive to another computer. That will "break" the RAID-set, forcing you to eventually re-establish the "mirroring", to re-synchronize the RAID-set.

 

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‎11-11-2021 11:39 AM

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@AlanWomble -- short answer: yes.

 

A "RAID-1" setup has two disk-drives containing the identical content.

 

It would be best to connect both disk-drives to a different computer, and to configure them as one "RAID-set", so that the content remains identical on the two disk-drives.

 

But, you could connect just one disk-drive to another computer. That will "break" the RAID-set, forcing you to eventually re-establish the "mirroring", to re-synchronize the RAID-set.

 

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‎11-16-2021 04:48 AM

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Thanks.  I risked trying it using a SATA to USB lead and it connected just like a USB memory stick would.  Connected it back to the original PC and it showed as being an empty not RAID disk but then rebuilt automatically very quickly.  I feel happy now that I can't lose my data if the PC dies.

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‎11-17-2021 10:39 AM

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@AlanWomble --  I feel happy now that I can't lose my data if the PC dies.

 

That is exactly what "RAID 1" is supposed to do.  🙂

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