I need a booze

[larciel]

RAID 5 is so fcuking not worth it now..

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I feel your pain. But...how?

 

[xeemzor]

Of course, you bought or recorded all 400GB legally, right?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Quick, you better head out to that bay where all those pirates like to hang around, .RARRRRRRRRRR!

5 points if you can find two puns; one's obvious.

 

[drinkmorejava]

Let me guess, built a new array and selected the wrong source disk?

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Quick, you better head out to that bay where all those pirates like to hang around, .RARRRRRRRRRR!

5 points if you can find two puns; one's obvious.

Dunno if they count as puns tho...

 

[larciel]

How I lost it

Originally posted by: xeemzor
Of course, you bought or recorded all 400GB legally, right?

not all of them were movies.. but it still hurts bad.

Time warner better have tech ready by their server 24/7 because I'm going full-throttle for next 60 days. LOL

Good thing is that while I was copying my data back into the Raid5 array, comp froze before it copied my document folder. There were all these reports I've done over the years, not to mention the priceless photos... If they were gone, damm I seriously would've killed something..

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Quick, you better head out to that bay where all those pirates like to hang around, .RARRRRRRRRRR!

5 points if you can find two puns; one's obvious.

+10 for joke

 

[Casawi]

Ouch man ... I lost 160GB of shit last month, including some pics that I didn't back up

 

[tasmanian]

One of my hard drives crapped out a while ago. Thankfully all i lost was games and music.

 

[compuwiz1]

Raid 5 is not supposed to do that to you, or is it Raid 1 I'm thinking of? Won't replacing the bad drive bring it all back, the parity drive is supposed to protect you, I thought.

 

[Mo0o]

Luckily the whole internet is essentially one massive backup drive nd you can get whatever you want.

 

[aplefka]

Lost all my pics and docs a few months back. Be thankful all you lost are things you can replace.

 

[compuwiz1]

Me thinks OP has been caught streaking, yup, running around striped.

Did ya? Please tell us the truth!

 

[apac]

Raid 1 > raid 5

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: aplefka
Lost all my pics and docs a few months back. Be thankful all you lost are things you can replace.

That's the one thing I don't get about people. If all this stuff is so valuable, why don't you take the time to do even the most basic of backups? Hell, drag and drop your Documents to a DVD-R every couple of weeks at the very least.

My family's photos are backed up on 6 different computers across 2 states and 3 towns, along with backups on DVDs. Admittedly, the multiple computers is due to everyone in the family needing copies, but it still works in our favor. New photos are backed up immediately onto a DVD.

Not meaning to single you out personally, just this practice (or lack thereof) regarding backups seems so ridiculous.

 

[wetcat007]

That's nothing, I got 1.4TB spread over 4 drives on one partition using LVM(don't do this it's a bad idea if one drive fails your screwed). Anyways it's not working out so great at the moment so I'm currently running fsck on it.... I need to get around to putting a RAID5(software not hardware) together

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: wetcat007
That's nothing, I got 1.4TB spread over 4 drives on one partition using LVM(don't do this it's a bad idea if one drive fails your screwed). Anyways it's not working out so great at the moment so I'm currently running fsck on it.... I need to get around to putting a RAID5(software not hardware) together

Yea, well I have 80gb on my ipod.

 

[0roo0roo]

only about 85-100dvdr depending on how files fit.
burning fun burners are cheap, 2 burners easy now.

 

[indamixx99]

...and how much of that 400gb was pr0n?

 

[Captante]

Hardware-controller based RAID 1 + regular backups to a USB external HD are the only way to go.

 

[larciel]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Raid 5 is not supposed to do that to you, or is it Raid 1 I'm thinking of? Won't replacing the bad drive bring it all back, the parity drive is supposed to protect you, I thought.

I thought so, but when two HDDs go bad at the same time, you're SOL

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: larciel

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Raid 5 is not supposed to do that to you, or is it Raid 1 I'm thinking of? Won't replacing the bad drive bring it all back, the parity drive is supposed to protect you, I thought.

I thought so, but when two HDDs go bad at the same time, you're SOL

yeah, that is the karmic bitch of raid 5. Who would think two drives would fail at once?

 

[larciel]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: larciel

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Raid 5 is not supposed to do that to you, or is it Raid 1 I'm thinking of? Won't replacing the bad drive bring it all back, the parity drive is supposed to protect you, I thought.

I thought so, but when two HDDs go bad at the same time, you're SOL

yeah, that is the karmic bitch of raid 5. Who would think two drives would fail at once?

Yeah, I'm going to Raid 10. It also says ONE HDD failture per mirrorred set. There would be so little chance of that.

 

[Yanagi]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: larciel

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Raid 5 is not supposed to do that to you, or is it Raid 1 I'm thinking of? Won't replacing the bad drive bring it all back, the parity drive is supposed to protect you, I thought.

I thought so, but when two HDDs go bad at the same time, you're SOL

yeah, that is the karmic bitch of raid 5. Who would think two drives would fail at once?

Ive seen many times when multiple HDDs have "failed" they've actually just removed themselves from the RAID array. Most of the time this applies to SCSI drives though, i.e one drive does a timeout event towerd the raid controller, 2 more drives jumps the ship aswell.

Out of curiousity, what RAID controller are you using, or are you using software based raid 5? Because most of the times you can try to check in which order the disks "failed" and take the last disk that failed and force it online and then rebuild the first failed disk.
However, before doing this I would advice you to run some type of diagnostics on the harddrives to make sure they are healthy.

If you're using a dedicated RAID 5 controller there usually is some way of exporting the log files from it which woiuld help you a lot in a case like this.

If you'd like I can try to assist you as much as I can as I handle these issues daily and I feel pretty comfortable handling raid arrays, allthough in enterprise environments.