Raid5 Disk problem

**puttynene** · 14-10-2014

Hey One of my raid disk is crashed. Is it ok? because i have heard that in raid 5 it would not matter if one disk fail.
Can i continue with my work or should i bother it? Urgent please suggest.

**unidentified** · 15-10-2014

Yes, the information of all data are available in of the hard drive fails. Since you have extra drives, then reconstruction will start immediately after the device failure. But incase the second hard drive also fails at the same time then all data will be lost. So, the main purpose of Raid 5 is that it can survive one disk failure but not more than 2 or so.

**puttynene** · 16-10-2014

Hey ya its just one disk that fails. How longer will it work if i goes like this?

**JAMES_911** · 17-10-2014

Originally Posted by puttynene

Hey ya its just one disk that fails. How longer will it work if i goes like this?

It is not recommended to keep a failed drive, you should start taking measures because if the second drive also fails then you will eventually lose all data.

**puttynene** · 17-10-2014

hey james thanks for the suggestion. Do one more favor tel where to recover it from.

**JAMES_911** · 18-10-2014

Originally Posted by puttynene

hey james thanks for the suggestion. Do one more favor tel where to recover it from.

Well, the only thing that you can do is if it is under warranty then you can try to RMA your drive or else you will have to take your drive to a data recovery center to get it fixed.