I'm running an up to date windows 2003 server in a small office. Nothing major, just virus, AD, DNS, DHCP, file storage ect. It is running on a RAID 1 configuration with 2 drives. They are basic hard drives, not raid specific, using the onboard raid controller. It seems every 3 or 4 days, the system will crash and not start. It stays at the windows loading screen forever. Safemode is hit or miss, and it seems the Raid Array becomes Degraded every 3 or 4 days as well, with one of the drives(not always the same one) becoming detached from the array. I rebuild the array, but that only seems to work for a short time. Everyone in the office works off of files stored on the server, so i dont know if that could be the problem. I was thinking of using a PCI raid card with a hot spare to try to alleviate this problem, but i would have to reinstall everything. Any suggestions?
bill
bill