I have an XW6400 Workstation configured with 2 RAID1 Enterprise drives on an LSI SAS-3041E-HP card. For approximately 3 days, the LSI card has been warning me that the drive at Port 0 has been getting ready to fail. The array is in a degraded state.
The machine is a business machine that I need for daily business operations, so while I'm waiting on the replacement drive to arrive, I've been using it. Today, it was running slow and intermittently freezing, hence I figured the drive was the issue. I thought I'd just go ahead and unplug the drive and use the secondary drive since it's RAID 1.
No joy. The OS will no longer boot.
I'm a little confused...I thought the drives would be mirrored, hence, in the case of failure I could still use one drive until the other was replaced.
Where am I going wrong?