George Vieira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Also the machine has just cacked it with a drive failing and errors into the
> database. Not sure on the RAID but if it was causing data errors then I
> doubt it's raid 1 or 5..
We recently upgraded several of our serverds. We had a total of 4 HDD failures
on reboots, including 2 failures from a RAID 5 array (luckily in that case we we
shutting it down prior to formatting the whole thing, so the data loss wasn't an
issue- and the other systems used RAID 1 so we could just rebuild the drives)
I've only ever seen this on unix/linux systems - windows reboots so often it
causes the failures to be detected much sooner. Unfortunately rebooting the
systems regularly to check for faulty hardware isn't really an option with a
live network. How many other people have seen systems that have been working
fine for a very long period of time fail when reboot? And how many people have
lost a redundent RAID array to multiple HDD failure?
I should also mention that my old Quantum Bigfoot drive also gave up around the
same time - so maybe it's just all bad luck on my part.
- Doug
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