Yesterday I setup new Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with 2x 1TB SATA drives and 2x Intel S3500 SSD. I installed OS on SSD and Software RAID 1 on both SSD/SATA drives. Today I placed some data on the SATA drive (D: drive) and when I tried to access the data from the drive I got read error. Disk management shows error that 1st SATA drive needs replacement. When I tried to break the mirror I got another error message that The last healthy plex cannot be removed.
So I still have to replace the drive and my question is since RAID 1 mirror data on both the drives and in case of a single drive failure it should retain the data, so in my case why did it show the read error?
So I still have to replace the drive and my question is since RAID 1 mirror data on both the drives and in case of a single drive failure it should retain the data, so in my case why did it show the read error?