"Some company" is looking to pad heir "profit margin" As to drives and RAID controllers... Lots of single drive failures with awesome next day delivery of replacement drives from HP worked just fine. Had one which took out the entire array (fortunately a test system) and HP shipped me a new RAID controller and requested the old one back (years ago). A short while later they issued a firmware update to correct the issue.
Steven On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Terry Dickson <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree, I have not had dozens but several failed, and in every case that > was not in Dell the Array performed just fine. It either was a Degraded > array until the drive was replaced, or it was set to have a Global Spare and > everything worked just as planned. I had never heard of this from anyone > including Dell, before and hope I never hear of it again, but it is the main > reason we do not order Dell anymore. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:10 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: SuperMicro > > Kinda defeats the whole purpose of raid, doesn't it? I've had dozens of > drives fail in raid arrays over the years and only once did a drive failure > take out a server (hmmm... it was a dell, way back in 98). > Sounds like the support personnel were the typical DKTAFAHITG. I had found > the PERC controllers to be very solid when we had 3 datacenters full of dell > servers... > > *********************** > Charlie Kaiser > [email protected] > Kingman, AZ > *********************** > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 6:50 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: SuperMicro > > > > My only response to that is what I have been told from two different > > Dell > Support > > personnel. I have had a drive fail in an array, both times I had > > online > spares configured > > and when the first drive failed it took out the array. I was told by > > the > support personnel > > at Dell, this is normal, when any drive fails in a Raid Array it will > probably take out the > > whole array. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
