[itdiscuss] Bad spots on Raid 5 array

[blloyd at buskercom.com]

I've used Raid 5 for years and have always found it to be a reliable
approach to fault-tolerance.  Most of the time I could not afford the
components that would allow me to do Raid 10 or Raid 1 so Raid 5 was a
good compromise.

 

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Kelley
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:07 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Bad spots on Raid 5 array

 

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.

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?

 

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.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 


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