Why does my WD My Book Premium II drive crash when I try to rebuild the RAID array?
Problem:
The Mac WD Drive Manager crashes when trying to rebuild the RAID array on the My Book Premium II external hard drive.
Cause:
Appears to be an issue with Mac 10.5 and 1394 Firewire. There are no known issues with Mac 10.4.x or USB.
Solution:
Connect the drive to the USB port, and re-run the WD Drive Manager to reconfigure the RAID to the desired array.
Western Digital manufactures desktop edition hard drives and RAID Edition hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically in either a desktop computer environment or a demanding enterprise environment.
If you install and use a desktop edition hard drive connected to a RAID controller, the drive may not work correctly unless jointly qualified by an enterprise OEM. This is caused by the normal error recovery procedure that a desktop edition hard drive uses.
When an error is found on a desktop edition hard drive, the drive will enter into a deep recovery cycle to attempt to repair the error, recover…
All WD ShareSpace drives support Spanning, RAID-0 (Striping), RAID-1 (Mirroring), and RAID-5 (Redundancy with parity). Each RAID mode may or may not be available for usage based upon how many internal hard drives are installed in the enclosure.
Please Note: Depending on how the WD ShareSpace RAID is setup, that RAID array may not be recoverable from a drive failure.
Qty of 2 – 1TB internal hard drives:
- RAID-0 – 2TB – (Not recoverable)
- RAID-1 – 1TB – (Recoverable)
- RAID-5 – (Not Supported)
Qty of 3 – 1TB internal hard drives:
- Spanning – 3TB – (Non recoverable)
- RAID-0 – 3TB – (Non recoverable)
- RAID-1 – (Not Supported)…
RAID – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Standard RAID levels – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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RAID Level 0
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