NetRAID - RAID Tutorial

Figure 4. Decision Tree for Choosing a RAID Level

Rebuilding and Reconstructing Data

With HP NetRAID Series adapters, the terms "rebuilding" and "reconstructing"

refer to different processes.

• Reconstructing data is the process of reorganizing data to correspond to a

change in the HP NetRAID system. Reconstruction is necessary if you

change a logical drive from one RAID level to another, or if you add or

remove a disk drive from an existing logical drive.

• Rebuilding data is the process of recovering data after a single hard disk

drive has failed. A rebuild process is only possible for data in redundant