On May 28, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > If you feel you must test the functionality of the ability of the > RAID1 > to recover from a failed drive, the power down, remove drive, boot, > power down, replace drive, boot process will test the ability of the > system to re-sync the drives. A more rigorous test would be to > zero out > the partition table of the removed drive, or to use a new blank > drive to > test the recovery; however, what I think Karanbir meant by "silly" is > that all these tests simply confirm that the RAID is working as > designed. If it doesn't, then you should have bought different > hardware > to start with. Thanks Phil for the clarification, felt like the light bulb suddenly turned on in my head. I should be more concerned at monitoring the health of the hard drives then. dianne