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By Johnny, June 18, 2011 2:12 am

I must be a psychic or extremely lucky! After giving away my desktop that I’ve been using for about 1.5 years to my brother-in-law so that he can roll his own FreeNAS server, my RAID 1 hard drive enclosure decided to throw errors in which I was no longer able to access the video files from the mount on the file server. I ran some diagnostic tools and found that one of the drive was not responding well. Perhaps a bad sector or what not.

As if the hard drive Gods gave me a gift, I have the yanked out hard drive sitting on my coffee table for the entire week. Through-out the week, I was figuring what I should do with the extra 500GB but it become more apparent when my 500GB disk array became at risk. I quickly swapped the hard drive out of the tray. The amazing part was that as soon as I popped the drives back in, the enclosure immediately knew what to do to recreate the copy without me doing anything. Apparently, this works because the enclosure checks the timestamp on both disks and the newest one will have their data mirrored. Amazingly enough, the disks were the same exact model and size.

So after I let the enclosure do it’s thing in generating a mirrored drive, I was back in business the next day. I quickly mounted the enclosure back and voila! My data was back and it was redundant again.

I can’t say how glad I am to have a fully redundant data storage system. Big kudos to DAT Optic’s ezRAID enclosure. They really work!