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132 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 4.0
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Initializing, Rebuilding, and Synchronizing RAID Arrays
Rebuilding a RAID Array
Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array.
This applies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 0+1, as well as a RAID 5.
For example, assuming you have a three disk RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fail,
then you need to replace the failed drive with a new one, and rebuild the array to re-
generate the lost data on the newly added drive.
Rebuilding Instructions
After creating a mirrored array, you can rebuild the array using the following steps:
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Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA MediaShield RAID Management utility.
Figure 4.6 shows an example of a system with one mirrored array and two free disks.
Figure 4.6 Mirrored Array