is a flowchart of a disk drive power cycle screening method 200 for a raid disk array in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention the method 200 may start with a step 202 in which a drive in a raid disk array is selected for power cycle screening the raid disk array may have a level of raid 0 raid 1 raid 2 raid 3 raid 4 raid 5 or raid 6 or a combination of levels such as raid 10 raid 0 1 or the like the raid disk array may be in normal operation i e when the raid disk array performs reads and or writes for a host which may be communicatively coupled to the raid disk array wirelessly via wire via a network such as an intranet and the internet or the like writes to the selected drive may be rerouted to a spare drive in the raid disk array for storing 204 reads for the selected drive may be rebuilt with data drives of a raid level preferably raid 0 raid 1 raid 3 raid 5 or raid 6 that the selected drive is in 206 power for the selected drive is cycled 208 the selected drive may be verified to ensure that the selected drive functions properly 210 the selected drive is resynchronized by returning the writes from the spare drive to the selected drive 212 preferably the.