Hello,
I have a raid 5 setup consisting of 6 hitachi drives with a total volume of 10tb.
The disks are connected directly to a raid controller on a gigabyte motherboard and I use Intel Rapid Storage Technology to manage the setup.
After running this setup happily for over 4 years I had a failed drive this week. The raid volume was then marked as Failed. I can only assume this is because I noticed the failed drive by accident and do not check daily.
After replacing the failed hard drive I have marked the new disk to spare. However the Intel software now says my volume is failed, has 1 missing disk, and has 1 normal disk outside of the raid configuration.
How can I remove the missing disk and add the new disk as its replacement? All google searches have led me to believe I need to destroy and recreate the raid volume but doing so will inevitably destroy my data.
I believe I tried everything without deleting any data, at this point in time any help is dearly appreciated. I do not want to lose 10TB of data.