[itdiscuss] Bad spots on Raid 5 array

[Glenn Kelley]

I hate Raid 5 

google BAARF - and you can see why Raid5 is almost worthless  - imho
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On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Jeffrey Thompson wrote:

> What is your RAID controller?  I know the 3WARE controller has a Verify program that validates the integrity of the raid and it runs it on a weekly schedule and sends me email on the results.
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> 2010/1/20 Steve Huffman <SHuffman at blackhawkchurch.org>
> I have a 3 drive Raid 5 array that has developed bad spots a couple of time in the last 2 weeks. In each instance chkdsk has been able to repair. My question is, how can I figure out which physical drive has had these spots?
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> The only way I have found out is when a user can’t access his data or when the nightly backup fails on a file. I do receive an Event ID 55 in the system event viewer when the error occurs, but all that event say is to run chkdsk.
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