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Reinserted a RAID disk. Defined as foreign. Is import or clear the correct choice?

I have re-inserted a RAID disk, on a DELL server with Windows Server 2008. The drive-status indicator was changing between a green and amber light, and the monitor gave the following message: There are offline or missing virtual drives with…
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Is it safe to place write-intensive partitions on an SSD (in an SSD+HDD system)?

I'm setting up a (sort of) powerful workstation for SW development work on Linux. It's a Xeon system with multiple cores, 32GB memory, a large HDD and a 120 GB SSD (Samsung MZ7WD120HAFV a.k.a. SM843T). I have to decide which partitions to put on…
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ZFS Reporting (on FreeBSD and Linux via ZoL)

As a longtime mdadm user is was just experiencing a disk error and remembered that I configured a Auto Mail reporting for mdadm on disk errors. Therefore i just had to insert my Mail address inside /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf MAILADDR…
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HP Proliant ML350 G5 SAS HDD

I am getting problem in HP Proliant ML350 G5. Some few days back one of the SAS HDD failed. It was 146GB SAS 15krpm HDD. We got new one which is 146GB SAS 10k rpm HDD. Its on RAID 1(1+0) configuration. We replaced the SAS HDD but its not…
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Understanding the S.M.A.R.T. values from a Synology 1812+ device

I have a Synology 1812+ NAS with 8 3TB drives configured as RAID 5. Its running DSM 4.1. It was purchased to replace USB drives, consolidate storage and short term OS X backups using Time Machine. The device and drives are only 2 months old. Every…
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Does a RAID 1 really protect from HDD failure?

If using a RAID 1 and if there are any inconsistencies between both disks found, data is copied from the primary disk (most likely the one with the lower port number) to the secondary disk. 1) But what if the primary disk is damaged and therefore…
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S.M.A.R.T - Predictive Failure Count

I'm monitoring my IBM ServeRAID M5015 controller for RAID status with MegaCLI, I have this on one of the disk : Enclosure Device ID: 252 Slot Number: 6 Enclosure position: 0 Device Id: 14 Sequence Number: 2 Media Error Count: 32 Other Error Count:…
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Steady red light on 2 HP SAS drives in RAID 1

I have a HP ProLiant web server with two HP 300GB SAS SFF 2.5 inch drives (Model: HP 507127-B21). Both drives have a solid red light, however there is no indication within the management software that either are in a pre-failure state. Also one of…
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sda1 (?) raid failed on debian - what to do now?

ispconfig says that my server has raid problems. The server is not mine, it is rented from a hosting company. The OS installation was not my business: the hosting firm did it. cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sda1[2](F)…
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mdadm failure detected on one partition

I received this rather nice email today suggesting one of the drives in a RAID1 array has failed. A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md4. It could be related to component device /dev/sdc2. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The…
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RAID: Comparision of load on disks while expanding disk space or upgrading RAID level

I have an Areca ARC-1880IX-24 RAID Controller (FW 1.51) with several different Seagate 3TB disks (SAS and SATA, and of different age) attached to it to form a RAID5. When I tried to expand it by two disks too many failed during data migration and…
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Is this disk about to die?

I have a WD Red 4 TB disk (WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, firmware 82.00A82) that is occasionally showing uncorrectable read errors in the SMART error log, e.g.: Error 43 [18] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 13157 hours (548 days + 5 hours) When the…
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ZFS keeps repairing the same disk when scrubbing - what does that mean?

I have a ZFS pool comprised of 6 disk, arranged in 3 stripped mirrors. The server is a Supermicro X11SSM-F with a Xeon CPU, 32 GB of ECC RAM running Ubuntu 17.04. I'm using 2 Icy Dock MB154SP-B to physically host the disks, and there are 8 SATA 3…
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S.M.A.R.T. Errors of previous hdd or need to replace?

I ran s.m.a.r.t and came up with some weird errors, although the disk is pretty fresh Power_On_Minutes 427h+41m I'm curious, are these the errors of previous hdd? Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 13729 hours (572 days + 1 hours) When…
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Isolate a failed SSD drive

I have recently had a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SSD fail on our server. The drive was configured in a RAID 1 array and a reboot was sufficient to bring things back online. When looking at the Intel Rapid Storage dashboard I now have the following…
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