I have 3 4TB drives in a raid array, I used the raid utility to initalize the array. It took almost 3 days to finish initalizing. I then used windows disk management to initalize it as GPT. I began to copy almost 5TB of data to it and it was doing fine. when it was done copying I rebooted the computer for windows updates. When it was done rebooting I went into file explorer and the array was gone. I checked in windows management and the initalize drive dialogue box came up and the drive was unallocated. Any ideas why this would happen?
Windows needs to initalize disk after restart
- Thread starter niksal12
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- Sep 13, 2010
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Motherboard RAID controllers are inherently unstable and pretty much anything can break the array. You were fortunate that it happened before you placed any real reliance on it to protect anything. Hopefully those are not WD Green drives. If you want a dependable and reliable array you will need to buy a RAID adapter card (like an Adaptec 6405 or 7405) if your budget allows.
thankfully i only copied the data so i still have it, but they are Seageate baracudas 7200.14 or something like that. the weird thing is that there are no events showing up in the utility for errors or anything. As for the raid card goes, I need a card that supports raid 5 on 4tb drives. Not looking for the best of the best just something that would get the job done.
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