Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:32:07 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: ryan.coleman@cwis.biz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Fixing" a RAID Message-ID: <4859C527.7060507@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <2854.71.63.150.244.1213842322.squirrel@www.pictureprints.net> References: <2854.71.63.150.244.1213842322.squirrel@www.pictureprints.net>
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Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Ryan Coleman wrote: >>>> Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Oh, I completely forgot to ask... >> >> Does the RAID still operate even though one disk is bad? >> >> After all, that is the purpose of RAID-5. stripe, with parity. One >> fails, the other two (or N) keep right on going... >> >> Or, is it a RAID-5 card that you put into operation as a RAID-0 span? >> >> If the latter is the case, good luck ;) > > No, I'm not that stupid. :) My old job, we had the big LaCie drives and > one of the 4 250Gs in it would fail and they were f*ed. I went to replace > the drive right away so I wouldn't be in that situation. > > When I went to rebuild in the BIOS it failed at 2%, no matter what 250G > drive I put in to fill the spot. Hrm... I didn't implicitly attempt to call you stupid. I was asking a question, and laying out info for others that may not know as they follow the thread... Besides...if you are seriously considering a 7TB storage facility, then you already know that building a proper RAID solution should include controllers that are hot-swappable, and will rebuild the array either as soon as you pop a new drive in, or with a hot-spare, without having to reboot and waste three hours rebuilding via a BIOS software. Steve
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