RAID failure
Jan. 25th, 2008 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cryowizardToday my RAID controller stopped liking my data array saying the second disk is not good. Why, nobody knows - the disk itself is healthy. Who knows -- it is now rebuilding from a primary (it's RAID1 - mirror). We'll see how that works out...
UPD: Took about 3.5 hours to rebuild a 500GB drive. Healthy and happy now.
UPD: Took about 3.5 hours to rebuild a 500GB drive. Healthy and happy now.
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Date: 2008-01-25 08:33 pm (UTC)Sure RAID5 would be nice but I ain't payin' for it, ya'hear?
For me, mirror provides enough redundancy to prevent data loss since simultaneous hardware failure of both array elements is unlikely, and each carries a full working data set. Not to mention that the contents of this data array is copied daily to an external HD ;)