Hello all,
About 6 months we had replaced about 4 drives in total across our two raid 5 arrays. IT consultant suggested upgrading server, so we did, it was a huge pain in the butt and I ended up having to finish the job because he had quit. Now that we had the new server up and going, I was hoping to salvage and re-purpose the old server to something light duty and non-critical given that it is out of warranty.
We have an 8-bay drive cage with a P400 controller. I noticed that when I put a drive into the 5th bay, the indicator lights go on, but HP ACU won't recognize that a drive is there. We left our server with a faulted drive (bay 6) of our secondary raid 5 which consisted of bays 6-8. I put a drive in bay 5 and tried to assign that drive to the second array but it wouldn't recognize. I took out the drive in bay 6 and reinstalled both drives in bay 5 and neither were recognized. I installed the new drive in bay 6 and it began rebuilding the array.
I was looking into replacement raid cards and that model is around 700$. Replacement drive cages are much cheaper (can only find G6 and G7 model cages though). Is it common for the drive cage to maybe cause drive failures? Or should I be looking at maybe the controller exclusively?
Any ideas would be helpful, thanks in advance.
About 6 months we had replaced about 4 drives in total across our two raid 5 arrays. IT consultant suggested upgrading server, so we did, it was a huge pain in the butt and I ended up having to finish the job because he had quit. Now that we had the new server up and going, I was hoping to salvage and re-purpose the old server to something light duty and non-critical given that it is out of warranty.
We have an 8-bay drive cage with a P400 controller. I noticed that when I put a drive into the 5th bay, the indicator lights go on, but HP ACU won't recognize that a drive is there. We left our server with a faulted drive (bay 6) of our secondary raid 5 which consisted of bays 6-8. I put a drive in bay 5 and tried to assign that drive to the second array but it wouldn't recognize. I took out the drive in bay 6 and reinstalled both drives in bay 5 and neither were recognized. I installed the new drive in bay 6 and it began rebuilding the array.
I was looking into replacement raid cards and that model is around 700$. Replacement drive cages are much cheaper (can only find G6 and G7 model cages though). Is it common for the drive cage to maybe cause drive failures? Or should I be looking at maybe the controller exclusively?
Any ideas would be helpful, thanks in advance.
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