Raid 1 issues

[Zmcgaughey]

Ok boys and girls, here is my current situation. I have a what should be Raid 1 setup that was setup in Windows. I say should be because I’m not sure if it was set up properly. One of the reasons I say this is that if you go back to disk management now then it is not red like all the videos I have watched show it should be when looking at the drive it’s still blue, also it’s listed as a basic disk not a dynamic. However after raiding 2 drives did turn into one in disk management. This information could be irrelevant but I’m giving all the info I can lol. Seatools is the only way that I can see both drives as far as I know.

On to the problem, some of the files on the drive or drives are starting to have errors. I have no idea how to check and see which drive is causing problems or if it is even a drive that is the problem. I can delete the files and redownload them for them to work for a short period of time and then they go to having errors again. 

What I have done, I have ran extended and short test with sea tools on both drives with no errors. I have ran a virus scan on entire pc with no issues. I have unplugged each drive individually and tried to view them. One of the drives shows properly with errors, and then when trying to access the other drive windows tells me I don’t have permission to view it, it is also not listed in disk management, however windows can see it and list it as drive Y.  

A few specs…. I am running Windows 10 Education with a SSD that has no issues, both of my backup drives are internal identical Seagate Exos 14 TB ST14000NM001G-2KJ103. 
Any help would be appreciated, I know that was a lot to read.

Thanks in advance.

[Bruce]

g’day and welcome to the forums.

running the Education version of Win10 is not normal, unless you have a specific reason.
what’s the history of that?

so you have a SSD as the boot drive and two 14TB’s that are in RAID1?
are those two Seagate’s under warranty still?

have you backed up the contents of those drives to an external device?
once backed up, you could reformat and see if that helps.
also remove the RAID (what is doing this process, BIOS?, Windows, 3rd party app?) and see how they perform.

as a said note - I’d be putting those two 14TB drives into a NAS unit unless there is a specific reason to have them internal.

[Zmcgaughey]

As far as the education version of windows, it was free lol. Yes on SSD as boot and 2-14 TB’s at raid 1. Haven’t backed up anything as that’s the purpose of the raid. Trying to determine which of the two drives is bad currently to replace just one. It was setup using windows, it was so long ago I don’t remember the exact process or how to reverse it. As far as putting them in a NAS unit, its another why would I pay for something that windows does for free.

Also thanks for the welcome, and any help advise you have.

[Bruce]

Windows may do it for free, but in my experience, not the best, hence the NAS boxes, but each to their own.

the Education version isn’t free, you may not have paid for it, but the mob (school, university, etc) that you got it off would have, and there are license requirements when using the Education version.

have you ran [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]chkdsk /r commands on each drive?[/COLOR]

[phillpower2]

For legal reasons no assistance can be offered when either the hardware or software is not owned by the end user, in this instance the Admin of the place of learning to which the licenced software is registered is responsible for Windows issues.

Thread closed as per the above explanation.