I would have never noticed I had a failed *Update, the disk in question ended up dying completely and was replaced under warranty with no problems and the machine is now happily cruising along with 2 working and synchronized hard drives once again. Since my previous thread went unresolved and this is of critical importance, I chose to repost this and get a real answer from Microsoft. Guarantees me a response from a Microsoft Engineer within two business days. However, this time I am using my company's Technet subscriber account instead of my personal account.
*Update: the disk in question ended up dying completely and was replaced under warranty with no problems and the machine is now happily cruising along with 2 working and synchronized hard drives once again. This seems like the perfect job for an OS notification system: to warn you when the feces is about to The new "Action Center" thinks it is important enough to tell me that my Flash player has a problem, but can't let me know that a drive is failing. What I really want is graphical, e-mail, and event notification of a drive failure.
#RAID ALERT CLASSIC WINDOWS 7#
That Windows 7 does not generate any events for RAID synchronization failures. After investigating this unnecessarily obtuse (but usable) solution, it was found Update: In the previous thread, it was suggested I use the Windows Task Scheduler to make my own custom notification based on RAID failure events in the Event Viewer. Where is the notification that I am running on only one drive? Finding nothing, I've come here to post my concerns.īut in order to maintain my required level of uptime, I need to KNOW when a drive has failed redundancy so I can correct the situation (by replacing the drive or other). I just had another loss of synchronization, and I checked around to see if I had been notified anywhere else (the Action Center seems like it could be a good candidate for this). Reducing downtime and not for use as a backup solution - I KNOW). RAID if Windows does not inform you that it has failed? I could lose one drive, go cruising along for months thinking I'm fine, then lose the other drive and POW! I'm left with nothing due to a false sense of security (please no lectures on RAID being for My point is why was there NO NOTIFICATION of my synchronization loss? I have NO IDEA how long my drives had lost synchronization before I stumbled upon that fact the first time. I decided to check again every so often and everything was fineĪgain for a while until I lost synch again.Īgain, my losing synch is not the point of this post. I had to "Reactivate Disk" and it started resynching.
#RAID ALERT CLASSIC SOFTWARE#
And, oh nos! there was my software RAID with a Failed Redundancy Error. To check on its status in Computer Management -> Disk Management. For some reason, after cruising along smoothly for several months with my RAID 1, I decided I've noticed my software RAID seems to be periodically losing sync.* This is worrisome (maybe a drive is failing?) but not nearly as worrisome as HOW I noticed it. Being able to easily build a software RAID from two cheap 1TB drives gives Hard disks are notoriously unreliable, and they carry the most important part of our technological world: our data. Having Software RAID as a built-in option seems like a great idea. Since my previous thread went unresolvedĪnd this is of critical importance, I chose to repost this and get a real answer from Microsoft. Per Technet, being a subscriber guarantees me a response from a Microsoft Engineer within two business days, but the previous thread was not answered satisfactorily, and now Microsoft seems to be ignoring it.