When Raids go down, it must come back up....Rant/Recovery

[phatcow]

it all started 2 days ago, our Citrix Server was having problems relating to size. Determined to upgrade the hard drive, we upgraded the hard drive and started the machine.


Smoke.....

Immediately, we noticed that our 3rd drive in our 4 drive DATA array (Raid ZERFRICKINGO) was smoking. Turned the machine off.

BROKEN STRIPE!!!!!!

We knew it was an issue with the PCB on the hard drive. Major issue with it. Smelt like burning. We searched the whole ISLAND for the exact hard drive to NO avail to change PCB's

THANK GOD FOR THE INTERNET

After hours hitting our heads, worrying about our jobs being lost, we found a vendor that had the 40 gig quantum (which got bought out by maxtor so it was even HARDER to find). 95 bucks. Kind of steep for that kind of size, but thats ok. We only needed the PCB, not platters.

THANK GOD FOR FEDEX PRIORITY OVERNIGHT

Yesterday morning at 10:40 AM our time the order was placed. 95 dollars with 50 dollars shipping here.. Fast forward to today, we did a PCB swap to the dead hard drive, and powered it back up.

"STRIPE ARRAY #0 ACTIVE"

 

[RGN]

Your bunning a business Citrix server froma Raid 0 array?

What kind of moron are you?!?!?

 

[phatcow]

the moral of the story is

"if your the network admin of the main company file server, with all personal folders and company data on it, and you enable RAID 0 and JUST ZERO in your raid card, please tie yourself to a fence in a mexican rodeo. or at least tell the BETTER admin that you WORK with that you did something stupid.."

 

[RGN]

I bet there was no backup either, right?

 

[phatcow]

sadly no, because i was STUPID in believing him when he said "oh. its RAID 0/1"


it was just raid 0.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: phatcow
sadly no, because i was STUPID in believing him when he said "oh. its RAID 0/1"


it was just raid 0.

These are IDE drives right? I'm assuming so because I'll be damned if you can get 40 gig SCSI hard drives for $95. I have never heard of running raid 1+0 with IDE drives.

 

[phatcow]

we have a Abit mobo dual PIII with a HIGHPOINT raid controller( i think H370)

it can support 0, 1, 0+1(10)

 

[txgixer]

RAID5 plus online spare, save you a$$ almost every time

glad you got it worked out though

 

[beer]

raid 0, on a business server, with IDE drives? And an Abit motherboard on a HIGHPOINT?!!?! controller?!?!!?!?

WTF kind of company are you working for? Jeez. Take a shitty controller, made by a mobo company that has QA problems, and still on there an array with no fault tolerance on drives that have, at best, mediocre MBTFs!?!?

/disgusted sysadmin

 

[vetteguy]

Sounds like cyberwings

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
raid 0, on a business server, with IDE drives? And an Abit motherboard on a HIGHPOINT?!!?! controller?!?!!?!?

WTF kind of company are you working for? Jeez. Take a shitty controller, made by a mobo company that has QA problems, and still on there an array with no fault tolerance on drives that have, at best, mediocre MBTFs!?!?

/disgusted sysadmin

hahah

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: TNTrulez

Originally posted by: Elemental007
raid 0, on a business server, with IDE drives? And an Abit motherboard on a HIGHPOINT?!!?! controller?!?!!?!?

WTF kind of company are you working for? Jeez. Take a shitty controller, made by a mobo company that has QA problems, and still on there an array with no fault tolerance on drives that have, at best, mediocre MBTFs!?!?

/disgusted sysadmin

hahah

I'd lose my job if we ever had a server go down overnight like that in the first place, though.

 

[phatcow]

Originally posted by: TNTrulez

Originally posted by: Elemental007
raid 0, on a business server, with IDE drives? And an Abit motherboard on a HIGHPOINT?!!?! controller?!?!!?!?

WTF kind of company are you working for? Jeez. Take a shitty controller, made by a mobo company that has QA problems, and still on there an array with no fault tolerance on drives that have, at best, mediocre MBTFs!?!?

/disgusted sysadmin

hahah

yes.. im disgusted too..... After i came aboard was when we got our FIRST poweredge Raid5 based DELL server....




The IDE drives did fine for what it was... it was just in a WRONG configuration for fault tolerance