Videoclocknet, You have to remove the failed drive and replace it with another similar drive on the same slot. When you choose the next slot, be sure to follow the steps in the Virtual Disk (VD) Management Window as you indicated. The drive to replace will be the failed drive and the replacing drive will be one on the next slot. Either way is perfectly fine. You can then monitor status of the VD and the rebuild process using OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA). The 2 drives in RAID 1 configuration act as mirror image of one another. Failure of 1 drive guarantees that the same data is available on the other. When you replace the failed drive, the rebuild process begins and the same data automatically gets copied over. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Hi guys,  Thanks for all you support in these forums. I'm new here.  We've got a Dell PowerEdge T320 server on my new job place. There is Dell Poweredge RAID H310 controller on it. It is configured as RAID-1 with 2 drives.  Now my question is: in case one of the disks fails: 1.- Should I insert the new disk in the slot where the failing disk was inserted or in the next slot? 2.- Will the new disk "get copied" automatically with the data from the healthy disk or it will need some work?  I've read the manual and the "Replacing An Online Physical Disk" chapter says the following, but I don't know the answer to the above questions:  1. In the Virtual Disk Management window, select Virtual Disk # and press the down-arrow key until Physical Disks is highlighted. 2. Press the right-arrow key to expand the list of physical disks that are members of the virtual disk. 3. Press the down-arrow key and highlight the desired physical disk you want to replace. Press  to expand the list of allowed operations on the disk. 4. Select Replace and then Start. 5. Press the down-arrow to highlight a replacement disk and then press the spacebar to select the disk.  6. Select OK to start the replacement.   Any advise would be appreciated. Regards.
Changing a failing disk - Dell Poweredge RAID H310 - RAID 1