Just had the unpleasant experience of finding a drive dropped from my RAID6 array with a Highpoint 3520 card. First time this has happened in almost 4 years of large-scale storage. My previous array of 5X Seagate ST31000340NS 1 TB never dropped a drive from the array, although a couple of them did accumulate a few bad sectors (I RMA'd these drives).
The 3 TB Hitachi 5K3000 (0S03230 HDS5C3030ALA630) had been in use for only 8 months, #4 in a RAID6 array with 6 drives. I was going to remove and re-seat the drive in the Norco 4220 chassis, so turned off the PC and pulled the plug on the power supply. Unfortunately I had forget the BIOS is set to power on after a power failure, so this resulted in the start of an automatic rebuild. At this point I intend to just let it finish, I'll report back with the results.
Anybody else ever have one of these drives drop out of an array? What card was used?
The 3 TB Hitachi 5K3000 (0S03230 HDS5C3030ALA630) had been in use for only 8 months, #4 in a RAID6 array with 6 drives. I was going to remove and re-seat the drive in the Norco 4220 chassis, so turned off the PC and pulled the plug on the power supply. Unfortunately I had forget the BIOS is set to power on after a power failure, so this resulted in the start of an automatic rebuild. At this point I intend to just let it finish, I'll report back with the results.
Anybody else ever have one of these drives drop out of an array? What card was used?
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