raid 5

I have a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-H8iR Raid controller. It's running in an ASRock 970m pro3 w/Win7 and until last Saturday ran fine. Suddenly the drive isn't showing up in windows, and when I try to open Megaraid the local drive isn't coming up. In the logs, there's an entry from megasas that...

Hello, I recently purchased this card on ebay. I installed the card into my supermicro server and put in 7 of my new sas drives. I can see all the drives, but when I go to create a new volume, my only options are Raid 0,1,00,10. The firmware is fully up to date from the broadcom site. I...

Hi, I have a Rackmount with a LSI-9011-8i. Now I have 2x8TB drives (one of these full) and I'm planning to buy another 4 of these drives (WD80EFAX) to build a RAID-5 with mdadm. (Now the 2 drives are NOT in RAID) If I create a RAID-5 with the new 4x8TB drives, how long will it take to grow, if I...

I created a RAID 5 VD with 4 drives on an Adaptec 6805. One of the drives failed, so I replaced it and completed the rebuild. When checking the drives individually and the VD in maxView Storage Manager all show "Optimal," however there is a critical exclamation point on the VD. I do see there is...