The present invention is directed to a system and method for increased data availability.
In an aspect of the present invention, a method includes receiving a SMART indication
from a data storage device included in a plurality of data storage devices configured
as a RAID array. Data from the data storage device which originated the SMART indication
is replicated to a second data storage device. The second data storage device was
not originally configured in the RAID array with the plurality of data storage
devices for data storage. The data storage device which originated the SMART indication
from the RAID array is removed, thereby resulting the second data storage device
and the plurality of data storage devices configured as a RAID array.
