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michaelkahl
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So lately I've had issues with my RAID 5 Array at home. I'm running the Array on a Highpoint 2310 and have been doing so for roughly 2 years. About a month ago I came home to find the PC beeping. I didn't realize what was going on at the time and just shut it down. Turns out this is a bad alert...possibly indicating a failed HDD.
Some background info: I have two highpoint RAID cards in this system when symptoms started, a 2310 packing 4x 1.5TB Seagates in RAID 5 and a 1740 running a mirrored 1.5TB volume and mirrored 1TB volume.
I took a look at the Highpoint Management Console and found that Disk 2 was kicking out errors and bad sectors were being repaired on the 2310 (RAID 5). I also saw a failed 1TB HDD on the 1740 (I assumed this caused the failed drive beep alarm).
Here's what I've seen on the RAID 5, please help me in deciding if it's worth supporting or if I should simply migrate to a new array.
1. Disk at channel 2 has been finding bad sectors and repairing them for a couple of weeks.
2. While backing up data the disk at channel 1 had one bad sector and repaired it.
3. The night I was going to swap the drive the PC started and did a chkdsk that lasted for hours. After that I found many files that were simply garbage (corrupt). There were 127 folders worth of files in my d:\found.000\ directory, many of which are corrupt. Roughly 100GB of data.
4. I replaced the disk at channel 2 and the array rebuilt in around 10 hours, pretty good for an array hosting 1.7TB of data. At least I think so...
5. After the rebuild I began copying files to a shiny new 2TB external hdd that I am sticking in a safe deposit box to ensure that photos of my sons first two years are around if something like this or worse happens again. Disks 1-4 all reported bad sectors and repaired them at the start of the file copy process and several times during.
6. I performed a verify on the array this morning and it completed with only 1 bad sector/recovery that occurred within the first 5 minutes.
7. I performed a chkdsk this evening and found 5 ISO images in the d:\found.001\ directory.
These are consumer grade drives that have been running in a well ventilated case for a couple of years but part of me is worried that they are all staring to go at the same time. My wife has approved a purchase of 3x 3TB SATA drives, Blu-Ray burner, and an online backup service like Carbonite or Crash Plan. Should I replace the array? I don't want to sink $700 into hard drives, I'd rather put it towards a tiller this summer (we have a garden).
Part of me is considering Blu-Ray backups on DL discs, the online backup service, and replacing the 1.5TB hdd's as needed. I'm just afraid that it can't be trusted any longer.
I have a feeling that many of you will say the same thing, it can't be trusted but there's part of me that hopes the array can survive and I can avoid a $700.00 investment right now.
Thanks
Below is an image of the array as it stands now...appearing normal and behaved. Below that is an image of all the error's I've seen since the 5th. I hid informational messages stating login/logout and repaired sector information.
Some background info: I have two highpoint RAID cards in this system when symptoms started, a 2310 packing 4x 1.5TB Seagates in RAID 5 and a 1740 running a mirrored 1.5TB volume and mirrored 1TB volume.
I took a look at the Highpoint Management Console and found that Disk 2 was kicking out errors and bad sectors were being repaired on the 2310 (RAID 5). I also saw a failed 1TB HDD on the 1740 (I assumed this caused the failed drive beep alarm).
Here's what I've seen on the RAID 5, please help me in deciding if it's worth supporting or if I should simply migrate to a new array.
1. Disk at channel 2 has been finding bad sectors and repairing them for a couple of weeks.
2. While backing up data the disk at channel 1 had one bad sector and repaired it.
3. The night I was going to swap the drive the PC started and did a chkdsk that lasted for hours. After that I found many files that were simply garbage (corrupt). There were 127 folders worth of files in my d:\found.000\ directory, many of which are corrupt. Roughly 100GB of data.
4. I replaced the disk at channel 2 and the array rebuilt in around 10 hours, pretty good for an array hosting 1.7TB of data. At least I think so...
5. After the rebuild I began copying files to a shiny new 2TB external hdd that I am sticking in a safe deposit box to ensure that photos of my sons first two years are around if something like this or worse happens again. Disks 1-4 all reported bad sectors and repaired them at the start of the file copy process and several times during.
6. I performed a verify on the array this morning and it completed with only 1 bad sector/recovery that occurred within the first 5 minutes.
7. I performed a chkdsk this evening and found 5 ISO images in the d:\found.001\ directory.
These are consumer grade drives that have been running in a well ventilated case for a couple of years but part of me is worried that they are all staring to go at the same time. My wife has approved a purchase of 3x 3TB SATA drives, Blu-Ray burner, and an online backup service like Carbonite or Crash Plan. Should I replace the array? I don't want to sink $700 into hard drives, I'd rather put it towards a tiller this summer (we have a garden).
Part of me is considering Blu-Ray backups on DL discs, the online backup service, and replacing the 1.5TB hdd's as needed. I'm just afraid that it can't be trusted any longer.
I have a feeling that many of you will say the same thing, it can't be trusted but there's part of me that hopes the array can survive and I can avoid a $700.00 investment right now.
Thanks
Below is an image of the array as it stands now...appearing normal and behaved. Below that is an image of all the error's I've seen since the 5th. I hid informational messages stating login/logout and repaired sector information.
