My Lacie 2big 6TB Raid just failed. Help!

Hi
My Lacie 2Tb Raid just failed and I am looking for any advice on fixing it.
When I turned on my computer, I noticed that my raid didnt pop up. When I opened Disk Utility, it shows that one of the drives have failed. The image is below.
Is there any possible way to fix or recover that drive?
The HD was backed up a week ago, but I am not 100% sure what was added since then.
Thanks

Call Lacie. If it's not under warranty, do yourself a favor and go buy something else.
I work in IT at a non-profit. We had 4 Lacie 2big units all fail within 12 months, all just out of warranty. They are pure junk. I won't touch them, ever again. One failure is one thing. drives fail. Everything fails eventually. But having 4 of them fail within that short a period of time is just inexcusable.

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