I have software RAID 1 and my main drive failed. I then had to select the
secondary drive at boot up. I changed it now to boot automatically from the
secondary drive for now. I still haven't fixed it since I think I'm getting
a new pc soon. The reason I went with software RAID is because I already had
the OS installed and just thought that would be faster and easier. The
software RAID did seem to slow the system down though.
Dana Fellows
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[mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of William M. Bell
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:12 AM
To: Tech-Geeks
Subject: [tech-geeks] RAID 1 Question
In the past, I know that a two-disk RAID 1 would mirror, but the ³master²
drive would be the only bootable device. Then, when the ³master² drive
failed, you would swap drive positions, and the ³mirrored² drive would then
be bootable. Is this still the case, or is RAID 1 now smart enough to
automatically switch the boot device to the "mirrored" drive?
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