My server is running Windows Server 2012 R2 x64. The motherboard has two built-in disk arrays. A Marvell RAID 1 mirror with two disks being used for the system disk, and an Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID 5 using six disks (one is a hot spare) being used for data storage. These RAIDs had no problem automatically repairing the arrays until I recently encrypted them with Bitlocker. I have a TPMv2 chip on the motherboard, and I saved a duplicate of the keys on a USB stick and on printed paper.
While doing my semi-annual dusting, I accidently disconnected three of my drives. The automatic RAID repair failed on both arrays. I couldn't successfully initiate the RAID repairs manually. I suspected Bitlocker, so I decrypted all of my disk arrays and was able to redefine the arrays from scratch and recover from my decrypted backup tape.
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