Duncan - The problem is how does one backup 6 TB of data?
----------- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2011-03-08, at 3:48 PM, DSinc <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, > I'm no raid expert. Do I understand that: > channel 3 HD reported failed? > And, after checking the channel 3 hd offline, > now channel 4 hd reports failed? > > I would tell the raid controller to again format the > channel 3 hd and see if you can re-integrate it to > the array. > > Even if in a degraded mode, backup your data ASAP. > HTH, > Duncan > > > On 03/08/2011 13:53, Brian Weeden wrote: >> I am having problems with the RAID array that holds all my media. It is a >> RAID 5 array with 8 1 TB drives, hosted on an Areca 1220 controller. I have >> about 6.2 TB of music, movies, TV shows, and photos on there. >> >> On Friday I got a message that the drive on channel 3 had failed and the >> array was degraded. I got a replacement drive today, powered off the >> machine, inserted the replacement drive, and powered up. I went into the >> RAID management software, set the new drive as a hot spare, and it started >> rebuilding. I watched it get to about 9% done and then went away and did >> something else. >> >> Coming back, I saw that the RAID management software now listed channel 3 as >> failed again (the new drive). Puzzled, I popped the old "failed" drive into >> my other machine and it spun right up. I was able to format it and see it >> in windows no problem. >> >> I powered off the machine, re-attached the old drive, and powered it back >> on. During boot, the RAID card BIOS says that no RAID array is detected. >> Now is where I start to get scared. I power off, put the old drive back >> in, and power on. Now it detects the array, still in degraded state, but >> says that Channel 4 is the bad drive. I did not change any cables around. >> >> Advice on what to do? I really, REALLY do not want to lose this array and >> all my data. It would take me a long time to recover it all. At this point >> I am concerned that maybe the RAID card itself is bad, or maybe some bad >> cables, or a bad power supply who knows. But with a RAID 5 array that >> already has a bad drive, I am hesitant to start troubleshooting that might >> cause another drive to fail and I lose everything. >> >> I guess an option would be to build a completely new system using another >> storage architecture, like unRAID, which is what I was planning to do in >> another year. That's really the only way I can think to get my data to >> safety. But I don't want to spend that money/time now if I can at all help >> it. >> >> --- >> Brian >>
