Replacing a non-failing drive in a RAID-0 array

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Published on 2012-03-31T14:27:34Z Indexed on 2012/03/31 17:35 UTC
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I have a Windows 7 machine booting on a RAID-0 pair of 500GB disks, controlled by an ICH9R. One of those was indicating an end-To-end SMART failure, so I added a spare disk as a temporary workaround, before receiving another to replace the failing one. The RAID-0 rebuilt on the spare and dropped the failing one from the array, as expected.

Now that I received the new drive, what are my options to reintegrate it in the array?

My first thought was to simply clone the temporary disk to the new one while the array is offline, but shouldn't there be a way to force a second rebuild, just as if the temporary drive had a warning, and drop that temporary from the array?

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