Hi guys,

I've been using 2 x 500GB WD MyBooks set up as a Raid 1 Mirror for a few months. I've had to rebuild one of the drives a few times as they go out of sync very easily. I located the problem to be the power supply which I rectified but I knocked the power out of one the other day and they're out of sync again.

My question: Is there any way to re-sync the drive without having to go through the 9hour rebuild process that my macbook has built into the disk utility? The data stored is still exactly the same on each drive. Seems stupid to have to go through this process on a regular basis.

Any info will be much appreciated.

Many thanks.
MikeB.

Hi thanks for your quick response. Yes they are both externals and sit side by side on my desk powered by a multi-socket and aren't usually unplugged, if they are then they are unplugged together.

Thanks for the link to rsync, I'll give that a go next time. I left my machine on over night and 9 hours later the slice is now online again. I was kinda hoping that there was some sort of raid manager that could look after it but a quick google didn't turn up much unfortunately.

Many thanks again.

Mike.