On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:25:32AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: > > Recently I have had a rash of disk failures on my home server. One of > them was an SSD 120G drive, a Samsung EVO 840. Then a seagate drive. > The this which is puzzling me is that I have all my drives tied into > raid arrays of various sorts in order to protect myself from disk > failures. But the odd thing is that when I have my disk failures, it > affect more than one drive in the array knocking out the whole raid > array. > > what I've had to do is boot up using a live fedora image and then issue > mdadm commands to restore the array. In one case, it was only one disk > which was bad in the array, even though 2 disk's were kicked out. I had > to reassemble the array to get it back up in degraded mode, after which > replacing the one drive got it back up. In another case, two SSD drives > went out, killing my raid 1 array (mirror mode). Again, mdadm'ing > getting it back, and only replacing one SSD drive got the system going. > Then again last night, my SSD raid 1 array kicked both drives out, but > I was able to reassemble it without replacing drives. > > All this has occurred within one week! I've owned the system for like 7 > years and never a glitch, until now. > > So, is it really the drives? could it be my motherboard or SATA > controller on the motherboard is going bad? Bad power supply? Should I > consider replacing the motherboard? Or am I just having a bad raid > week?
7 year old system? I would consider the power supply and the SATA controller prime for replacement, and also replace the SATA cables - they're cheap. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
