Hi, where I work we had a simple raid array, we used a Nvidia Nforce3 250 mobo, with driver package 5.10 to do raid 1 on two drives. Worked fine for a long while, with no reboots for a few weeks. Then we rebooted and *no boot* because the raid array was degraded.
So we hooked up one of the drives and lo and behold the contents were WEEKS out of date. The drives had been degraded but there was no warning by the drivers that the array had failed.
If this is the case, then IMHO Nvidia's raid is garbage. A raid solution needs to notify me with an active alert as soon as the array is degraded, and not just when rebooting.
My question is, is this normal? Should the Nvidia software have alerted? Doesnt seem like theres any kind of monitor component to the nvidia software... Can someone recommend a better solution for people who need to know when their array is failed? We're a small business so we dont have tons of money for enterprise hardware.. but we could spring a couple hundred bucks for a better solution.
thanks.
So we hooked up one of the drives and lo and behold the contents were WEEKS out of date. The drives had been degraded but there was no warning by the drivers that the array had failed.
If this is the case, then IMHO Nvidia's raid is garbage. A raid solution needs to notify me with an active alert as soon as the array is degraded, and not just when rebooting.
My question is, is this normal? Should the Nvidia software have alerted? Doesnt seem like theres any kind of monitor component to the nvidia software... Can someone recommend a better solution for people who need to know when their array is failed? We're a small business so we dont have tons of money for enterprise hardware.. but we could spring a couple hundred bucks for a better solution.
thanks.
