- Jul 12, 2004
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running a 2k3 server with 6 x 1tb hard drives connected to a highpoint 2220 raid 5 controller. Server is not powered on alot, and drives are maybe a year old.
anyway, I was copying files from my pc to server, and my raid card starts beeping. Checked, and one of the drives is down (WTF!) Like a minute later, it goes into rebuild mode but it doesnt list the rebuild time like I have seen before. I check the smart status and all the drives are running fine, even though one of the drives says critical.
I wanted to let the copy process finish, which it normally can do but in degraded mode. a few minutes later, beeping again. Now it says another drive in the array failed, and the array dismounted itself. I shit mself because I have about 5tb of data on there.
anyway, I rebooted, and went into the raid cards bios, and it shows all the drives are fine, but the array is still critical. okay, as long as it can rebuild, im happy, and I was hoping it was a just a weird glitch because if 2 drives go down in raid 5, you are SOL. So I reboot, the array came up, and I could view my files, but its in rebuild mode. A few minutes later, same thing, 2nd drive failed, array goes offline.
I can only rebuild 1 drive at a time, and I do have a spare drive, but I find it very hard to believe one drive died, and then a second one really died a minutes later.
any advice/ideas how to check if either drive is actually bad, or if its something else?
anyway, I was copying files from my pc to server, and my raid card starts beeping. Checked, and one of the drives is down (WTF!) Like a minute later, it goes into rebuild mode but it doesnt list the rebuild time like I have seen before. I check the smart status and all the drives are running fine, even though one of the drives says critical.
I wanted to let the copy process finish, which it normally can do but in degraded mode. a few minutes later, beeping again. Now it says another drive in the array failed, and the array dismounted itself. I shit mself because I have about 5tb of data on there.
anyway, I rebooted, and went into the raid cards bios, and it shows all the drives are fine, but the array is still critical. okay, as long as it can rebuild, im happy, and I was hoping it was a just a weird glitch because if 2 drives go down in raid 5, you are SOL. So I reboot, the array came up, and I could view my files, but its in rebuild mode. A few minutes later, same thing, 2nd drive failed, array goes offline.
I can only rebuild 1 drive at a time, and I do have a spare drive, but I find it very hard to believe one drive died, and then a second one really died a minutes later.
any advice/ideas how to check if either drive is actually bad, or if its something else?