Do you use the Dell powervaults and any of the scsi perc raid cards? We do and they have been a huge problem. Not just for us but all over the university. They seem to work better for windows but one of the windows shops also lost a server last year to a single failed drive in a raid5 set which then failed to rebuild.

We had some thing like 80 dell servers and the plain old servers work fine, it was just the add in raid cards and powervaults that caused the issues.

Cheers

Matt

Wow, your experience is opposite mine. I swear
by Dell servers, and have used nothing but in the past
7 years or so. No major problems at all, and over that
time we have only lost one drive in a RAID system, and it
rebuilt just fine. We cycle out the critical servers every 3-4 years,
but we have some of the older servers doing non-critical things, and
they are still going strong. Strange that we are having
such opposite experiences.


-Dj

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