Certifying disks in a hardware RAID 1 array - Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:12:45 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Certifying disks in a hardware RAID 1 array https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16271 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 05:50:31 +0000 @softraid-support 

I wondered if the primary and secondary disk hierarchy might be lost in a hardware RAID 1 given that the mirroring is managed by a RAID controller chip vs by software.

I'll mark this inquiry as Solved.

Thanks again. 

 

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize raven907 https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16271 RE: Certifying disks in a hardware RAID 1 array https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16269 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 04:54:59 +0000 @raven907 

With hardware RAID, I don't think this (primary/secondary) concept exists. Both drives are written to and both read from equally. It depends on the hardware RAID controller chip, how it is designed.

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16269 RE: Certifying disks in a hardware RAID 1 array https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16266 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:23:54 +0000 I questioned that if I could certify both disks while in a hardware RAID 1 array that there may not be a way to correlate disk errors to physical disks. It would seem that an advantage of using SoftRAID to create a RAID 1 array (from JBOD) is that you'd be able to identify disk errors using the Disk Health Monitoring feature that shows the details of individual disks in a volume.

When re-creating the hardware RAID 1 array in the OWC Gemini enclosure, would Slot A be the primary disk and Slot B be the mirrored secondary disk?

Thanks again.

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize raven907 https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16266 RE: Certifying disks in a hardware RAID 1 array https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16264 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 02:33:59 +0000 You can certify it, but if there is an error, you won't know which disk.

 So I would indeed put them into JBOD single disk mode, certify, then reset the enclosure to RAID mode. You can do either, but I personally would do the latter.

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16264 Certifying disks in a hardware RAID 1 array https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16263 Fri, 22 Jul 2022 02:16:28 +0000 I have a new OWC Gemini Thunderbolt 3 RAID enclosure which is configured as a RAID 1 array mirroring (2) 16TB disks.  Since I added my own new disks to the enclosure, I assume that they were not certified by OWC before shipping as they would have been in an already-built enclosure.  In SoftRAID XT, when mounted, this hardware RAID 1 is presented as a single 16TB disk.

Before I put this into "production," I would like to certify both disks in order to attain the highest reliability possible.

Can SoftRAID XT certify both disks simultaneously during each pass on a hardware RAID 1 mirror?  If not, it's my understanding that I'd have to re-configure the disks as JBOD, then certify the disks a separate disks, which can be done simultaneously in that mode.

I haven't been able to find any information about whether SoftRAID XT is able to certify disks already set up in a hardware RAID 1 configuration and hope you can offer some insights.

Thanks.

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize raven907 https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/certifying-disks-in-a-hardware-raid1-array/#post-16263