What a day with my computers...

[TurtleMan]

OMG.. today must be the worst day ever..
I have two computer side by side to me,
well one of them die last nite, i think the motherboard is dead then
when i check my main computer, my 160gb raid setup, one of HD in my raid setup just die tooo.
omg wat a day !!

anyone know any way to get data out from the good HD that's still in raid ?

 

[Electrode]

If the dead drive works at all, start up the array normally and try to get as much off it as possible.

If the dead drive is totally dead, you be f*cked. Make backups next time.

 

[MacGaven]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

USB / Firewire External Enclosure.

 

[Eli]

Err?

If it's RAIDed, can't you just buy a new drive of the same size, stick it on there and have the array rebuild itself?

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: Eli
Err?

If it's RAIDed, can't you just buy a new drive of the same size, stick it on there and have the array rebuild itself?

As long as it's not RAID 0

I hate HDD failures

 

[TurtleMan]

blah .. raid 0 here..
so im pretty much scrwed eh :\

can't i delete the array and then take out the bad hd and look at the content of the good hd ?
or is it once i delete the array everything will be gone ?

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: TurtleMan
blah .. raid 0 here..
so im pretty much scrwed eh :\

can't i delete the array and then take out the bad hd and look at the content of the good hd ?
or is it once i delete the array everything will be gone ?

It'll all be gone... Remember, RAID 0 is STRIPING. x KB to Drive 1, x KB to Drive 2, etc. (x usually = 64)...

So you're screwed if one drive fails...

But if you want every other 64 KB (or whatever stripe size) of your data, you're good to go

 

You can't rebuild raid 0.
Your data is gone.

 

[dullard]

One consolation: half of the files that are smaller than your stripe size will still be there. The rest are gone though.

Sorry about your loss. But one less person on Raid 0 is a good thing. Virtually no performance boost (as shown by dozens of benchmarks many with RAID 0 slower, a few with RAID 0 up to 10% faster maximum) yet tons more risk.