From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I would think that you could set it to email you any admin alerts.

I recall about a year ago, logging in to our Win2k server, that has a
software Raid 5 array in it, and there was a console message that the array
had a failed drive.   Went to Drive Manager, and saw that one of the three
drives was offline, and had errors.  At that point, I started a rebuild of
the array (let it rebuild the offline drive), it came back online, stayed
active for several days, then failed again.  By that time, I had received 3
replacement drives, which I cycled through one at a time (failed drive
first), doing a rebuild each time.

Zero downtime

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Glenn M.
"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:4479dba3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hiya,
>
>
> I've got my first almost real server. It's running W2k3 server, and has
> two SATA disks which are configured as a RAID 1 mirror by the OS - no
> additional controller software or nothing. Works fine, but I was wondering
> how I'll be able to tell if one disk goes down? I suppose I could test it
> by yanking the plug on one of the drives, but will that break the drive?
> The box is not yet running anything too important, but it will have a lot
> of documents and backups and stuff like that, so I'd rather make sure it
> really survives a disk crasch before it's fully operational.
>
> Thanks-o.
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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