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patrickl:
Still, it does sound damning that the array doesn't work.

I had a similar problem with the ReadyNAS when two drives were damaged. It simply wouldn't start the array. It makes sense though since if two disks are broken, it should not keep running. It simply indicated with leds which drives it deemed were broken. Since there were two disks broken though, I had to get one to run again to be able to recover the array.

So I'd say it doesn't bode well for the array, but then I'm unfamiliar with RAID solutions that are so unreliable that they might malfunction from a single disk failure. My problem has been more that they function perfectly fine with one disk broken ... until the second disk goes.

BTW drives don't usually die completely. More often they start to show bad blocks. So in a 4 disk JBOD configuration where one disk "dies", you generally only lose several files on the damaged disk.

Ummon:

--- Quote from: saint on February 05, 2009, 07:25:04 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 05, 2009, 12:25:08 am ---I think maybe he means to ask how much of that 3.5 TB server is taken up by this website.

--- End quote ---

OH. Heh, zero.


--- End quote ---

No, I figured he had it on a separate server. I was curious how much storage it takes, period.

boykster:
I'm just going to take this moment to mention I just added the final 4 1Tb drives to my 12 port 3ware RAID card for a total of ~10Tb of storage in RAID5.  Nope, RAID5 isn't a 'backup solution' but damn it's nice to know that its there...

 ;D

Oh, and for those doing the math - a WD Green 1Tb drive is approx 931gig of storage space, - 1 full drive for RAID5 = approx 10Tb for 12 drives.... :afro:

shmokes:
I'm just going to take this moment to laugh at you that you're finally running out of capacity.  It goes to show that no matter how big a hard drive you buy it has only two states, new and full.   :cheers:

drventure:
Good info about the TeraStation. I'd considered it a while back, but it was kinda $$$ for what I was looking for.

I ended up getting a decent deal on an Iomega dual drive NAS, that so far has worked pretty well, though its definitely not the fastest boat in the water.

That "RaidReconstructor" though, holy hell. I'm bookmarking that link. All the years I've worked with RAID and I've never heard of it. For 99$, if you really had a prob with a striped array, that could be a godsend...

Reminds me of SpinRite, a little disk validation utility I absolutely used swear by (only marginally valuable these days with HD's basically a commodity.

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