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Title: RAID 1 with one drive installed
Post by: Clayton on November 26, 2009, 08:44:33 PM

Just had a failed hdd and switched everything off and pulled it out to send back to the supplier for replacement and now I can not access the drive with only one in it, from a icon on the desktop that I have mapped says z:\ is not accessable, the network path was not found.
If I plugged the faulty drive back in all is good, then I have to eject the drive while the unit is still running and still seems to work, is this correct? can you eject drives while the unit is running?

Title: Re: RAID 1 with one drive installed
Post by: fordem on November 26, 2009, 09:20:43 PM

You should be able to access the data with only one drive from a RAID1 pair installed - without having to go through any tricks such as ejecting drives with the unit running.

I don't recall DLink making any recommendation on hot plugging drives, but the SATA connectors were designed for hot plugging, so you should have no problem hot unplugging - however - from experience, I will tell you that the unit will not correctly recognize any drive that is hot inserted.