Intel D875PBZLK RAID drive replacement

**Bruce Vaughan** · July 25th, 2005, 05:27 PM

I have a Intel D875PBZLK motherboard that uses the RAID system. How do you replace one of the hard drives?

**slgrieb** · July 26th, 2005, 06:43 PM

If the drives are mirrored, the controller's native utility should let you rebuild the array in the event of a drive failure. This is easiest if you can get an exact replacement for the drive.

If you have a striped array, you will need a utility like: http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm

**Koon** · July 28th, 2005, 08:49 AM

I have this motherboard also... but here is what comes to the top of my head. Just because the motherboard has RAID, doesn't mean you are RUNNING RAID. You would have to know how to setup a RAID configuration. If you know how to setup a RAID configuration, you would know what RAID is all about. THEN you would also know how to change out a harddrive in a RAID system.

If you are 100% sure you are running RAID... you forgot to mention what RAID level is your configuration... example, RAID 0,1,5,10. This RAID level is also a factor in how you would replace a drive.

**Bruce Vaughan** · July 28th, 2005, 09:54 AM

I agree with both replies to my issue, I think I am running the drives in a striped array instead of a mirrored. When I purchased the motherboard I was told only one way to set up the RAID drive, by using the floppy disk that it came with, 3.0 RAID edition. How do I install the RAID cofiguration correctly so I can run both drives mirrored?

**slgrieb** · July 28th, 2005, 01:20 PM

If you originally had a RAID 0 (striped) array, RAID Reconstuctor will destripe your data and copy it to another location. It doesn't attempt to "fix" the array. If you then set up another array, or just a single drive, the data can be copied back.

If you are going for reliabilty RAID 1 (mirrored) is much better than striped. There are even better RAID levels but they require more drives and some levels need fancy controllers.