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Easiest, least head-achey way to replace 1 disk out of 3 in raid 0

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brxndxn

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I have 3 WD 640gb drives in Raid 0. Smart status for all three is 'healthy' - but AMD RAID keeps reporting bad sectors on one of the disks.

I figured the easiest way to replace the disk is to ghost to a 2tb drive and run off that until I can get the bad disk in the raid 0 replaced. Is there an easier way? Like.. could I plug a 4th 640gb disk into the array and have the array duplicate it?

I am looking to minimize the time and hassle..

I'm running Win 7 64bit enterprise. MSI 790FX-GD70 (built in raid on AM3 platform)
 
There's no easy solution because with RAID0 there's nothing to duplicate from the other drives, the data is spread evenly across all drives in the array.
 
You could try a sector by sector backup, it might work. Obviously you have to know which is physically the bad disk 🙂

I'm not sure how finicky your RAID controller is though. Hopefully it'll be fine about adding a replacement drive to the array.
 
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ghosting is probably the easiest/only solution, a bit time consuming, but there's not really anything else to be done to a failing raid 0. And keep your fingers crossed it doesn't fail during the ghost, depending on how far gone that drive is.
 
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