typical - xmas eve RAID failure!

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Dont you just love computers!? Every year at this time I take advantage of the time off work and upgrade a few components, ensure firmware's are up to date and generally make sure my systems are reliable and fully functioning.

On Tuesday the 23rd I ran a check on my Areca 1231ML 7TB RAID 5 Array which completed without issue and zero errors.

2008-12-23 19:08:55 ARC-1231-VOL#00 Complete Check 003:52:54 0 Errors

Jump forward 24 hours, one clicking drive, a degraded array and all shops shut for at least 36 hours!

2008-12-24 19:05:38 IDE Channel 1 Device Failed
2008-12-24 19:05:38 Raid Set # 00 RaidSet Degraded
2008-12-24 19:05:38 ARC-1231-VOL#00 Volume Degraded

Bloody computers, bloody christmas............bah humbug!

Please pray for my remaining drives that another doesnt take the opportunity to go belly up on me. I will be ordering a few and upgrading to a RAID 6 array too!

Merry Christmas everyone!
Ian
 
yeah, I have a backup of all the documents, pictures and other odds and sods. I think I even have backup of the 1.5TB of FLAC'd audio files but what I dont have a backup of is the 5TB+ of DVD rips! It would **** me off to have to redo all them again.

I just dont really know whow to backup that much data effectively - other than another xTB RAID array which seems overkill. I dunno.....fingers crossed.

Looks like the soonest I can get a replacement drive is the 29th or 30th. It seems the local computer shops have all shut down as business moved to on-line or PC World (here in the Uk anyway).

Im not sure if I should shut the Server down or leave it up. Its been up for close to 2 years now (with these HDs) and Im not sure if the chance of failure is higher with them up at operating temp (32degC) or the power cycle effect and stress of bringing them back up.
Im edging towards just leaving them up but reducing work on them, i.e no defraging, no array checks.

If Santa happens to be flying over my home, please drop off a few 1Tb Seagate drives - you can have them back in the new year! :)
 
BTW I am going through a similar hell. My HTPC started acting funny. I decided to do a restore from WHS and guess what... "can't find server" or some such nonsense. I have spent about 4 hours so far, and just downloaded a new PC Restore disk to see if that helps. When I google the error message I see LOTS of similar messages. Sigh.

Luckily this is not anything big, if necessary I can just do a reinstall but it is irritating to have spent so much time and effort on WHS only to have the restore CD refuse to find the WHS server.

I do NOT want to spend any significant time without MyMovies, my kids will drive me crazy.
 
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