Someone was giving away old drives in my Buy Nothing group, which was cool. Check out the Maxtor trapezoid!
Anyway, it included this ancient g-tech G-Raid 2 1000gb drive (on the right). It was easy to load it up as a 1tb external drive on my PC, but I don't know anything about RAID drives, and I haven't been able to find any of the configuration/monitoring software for this old drive anywhere. (The current G-RAID installer software GTC_Installer_1.1.1, downloaded from WD, doesn't recognize the drive at all).
I'm not going to start loading data onto this ancient drive without being able to check its health / search for bad sectors.
So my questions are - 1. does anyone know pc software that can monitor/test the health of this old G-Raid drive?
Alternately - is it possible to shuck out the two drives in this enclosure? Before shucking, do I need to do anything (like "delete volume" or whatever) to get them to work as individual, non-RAID, drives in separate enclosures?
Any help is appreciated. I hoard a lot of data but always just by backing up drives, never set up a RAID server (and have no desire to).
2 GO FLEX drives, a MAXTOR, and the GTECH
