Is there any way to monitor the resync process of a s/w RAID 5 array in W2K8R2? I have a server that has 6 2T drives: 2 mirrored via h/w and 4 in a s/w RAID 5 array. I had one drive go offline so I reactivated it (oddly, there was nothing in the event log to indicate why this happened) and the array has been resynching ever since. The problem is, it simply says "resynching". Occasionally, it will give me a percentage but most of the time it doesn't. Is there some way that I can monitor its progress? This is a hyper-v box so I shut down the VM's in an effort to speed things up but I really can't tell if it made any difference or not.
Another odd thing going on here is that disks 1 through 4 are in the array and it was disk 2 that went offline. However, if I fire up the resource monitor, it shows that disks 1 through 3 have an activity % of around 3 (varies from about 2.75 to about 3.8) but disk 4 is sitting at a constant 93% +. If disk 2 failed, why is disk 4 being hit so hard?
Thanks
Bert