LSI 9260-8i + Sleep = Rebuild?

I've owned this card (Win8.1 Pro x64) for several months now with 5x4TB Hitachi NAS hard drives in RAID6. I've been told/am aware that using server hardware in a desktop can cause issues or lead to unexpected behavior.

However, I've not seen anything like this--coming out of sleep the card starts blaring as one drive disappeared.

Reboot, drive's back, but the card is still blaring and begins a rebuild.

Does this happen often? Or is it a quirk--my guess being "the drive spun up slowly enough compared to its kin that the controller flipped out?"

Server parts are not meant for sleep mode dude.

Nas Drives should not be going to sleep IMO... apparently its a thing HW Raid will see it as a drive failure... SW raid (depending on the type) might not see it as failure...

I would see if this might be a firmware defect or if its meant to be in the product like this becaues yea you arent going to have a good time for sure with these kinds of issues...

I doubt that the driver gets properly tested for things like sleep mode even if the basic support is genrally there.

Server hardware not running = no revenue, so this is a feature that not many people will actually use.

The drives aren't sleeping--I'm using sleep on the whole computer.

Since I installed it, this is the first time I've actually encountered an issue. I know I'm rolling the dice here (as extide said) but what confuses me is--why now? Why did I get away with this until yesterday?

The rebuild was also successful and took 10 hours.

Update/Bump for future Google users: It appears to have been a fluke. That particular instance of the computer coming out of sleep was rather slow in general, so it seems one hard drive took extra-long to wake up, causing the controller to think it was dead.

Conclusion: This is a risk you take if using server parts in a mode they might not have been intended for (S3 suspend-to-RAM). I'm not sure if there's a way to force the controller to scan the "missing" disk and conclude that it is not corrupt without a full rebuild--it may simply be operating as designed.

Sovereign said:

Update/Bump for future Google users: It appears to have been a fluke. That particular instance of the computer coming out of sleep was rather slow in general, so it seems one hard drive took extra-long to wake up, causing the controller to think it was dead.

Conclusion: This is a risk you take if using server parts in a mode they might not have been intended for (S3 suspend-to-RAM). I'm not sure if there's a way to force the controller to scan the "missing" disk and conclude that it is not corrupt without a full rebuild--it may simply be operating as designed.

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honestly, NO.

you can try to use software RAID, and tweak HD time-out for a longtime.

your RAID card is built for 24/7 with no S3/sleep to ram supported .

the simple way to verify, show me one entry/mid/high server machine supports S3(sleep) and S4(hibernate..) /

cantalup said:

honestly, NO.

you can try to use software RAID, and tweak HD time-out for a longtime.

your RAID card is built for 24/7 with no S3/sleep to ram supported .

the simple way to verify, show me one entry/mid/high server machine supports S3(sleep) and S4(hibernate..) /

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Honestly, YES.

Look, if you want to argue with me that I don't know what my own computer does, by all means head down that road but I've had only one instance of this card misbehaving due to using S3 since January 20, 2015 with at least one sleep cycle per day so that's a 98% or higher success rate. My previous PERC5/i worked flawlessly with hibernate as well.

Is it recommended? No, as evidenced by posts here. But will it crash, burn, and explode every time like when I posted this question? Also no.

Sovereign said:

Honestly, YES.

Look, if you want to argue with me that I don't know what my own computer does, by all means head down that road but I've had only one instance of this card misbehaving due to using S3 since January 20, 2015 with at least one sleep cycle per day so that's a 98% or higher success rate. My previous PERC5/i worked flawlessly with hibernate as well.

Is it recommended? No, as evidenced by posts here. But will it crash, burn, and explode every time like when I posted this question? Also no.

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Not arguing
Just answer my question:
show me that server (not desktop) machine supports S3 ......
please give me a link or tech doc that server machine support S3, since hardware RAID is made for server environment.

simple fact, you are playing with fire in not recommended environment. If you got burned, this is yours.