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SAS array with Dell Perc 6/i controller -- SMART failure

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I have a 4 drive SAS array ran by a Dell Perc 6/i controller.

Currently I am hearing one drive thrashing extensively and some files are getting corrupted.

But all drives scan out as file from the Dell Perc 6/i BIOS...

Is there any software or anything else that I can use to see things at a low level in Windows 7 such that I can identify which drive may have the problem?

Thank you in advance for any advice.

mmganga
 
What RAID level?

Back up your data first thing of course.

Have you loaded up Dell Openmanage to look at the drives?
That will maybe give you more info than the controller diags.

One of them should have SMART errors, probably running hot too.

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This was just RAID 0 so there is no mirroring or data safety.

Have backed up the data to an external drive so that is not an issue...

Just need to identify the drive through some means, get it replaced and restore the backup (hopefully will be that simple).

Trying to download the Server Administrator right now...hope it will work since system is NOT a Dell.
 
Yeah, Openmanage may not run on a non-Dell machine.

In that case, since you have a backup... format each drive and run diags separately.
Copy large amounts of data to & from each suspect drive with a known good drive.

You should be able to weed out the bad one before too long.

Just FYI.... I gave up RAID-0 on spinner drives a couple of years ago.
With SSD being so fast, there is no need for RAID-0.

And RAID-0 on SSD is not as effective since the RAID-0 is mainly compensating
for physical disk access time on the spinners.

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Install the MegaRaid Storage manager from LSI or now Broadcom, you can manage your array from there.

Hard drive sentinel should also see each drive and give you info, not sure if there is a trial version.
 
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