With two 3TB HDs or 3 2TB hds :)
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:05:27PM -0500, Brian Weeden wrote: > 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 > >> -- Bryan G. Seitz
