[itdiscuss] Bad spots on Raid 5 array

[Danny Ybarra]

RAID just means you have redundancy of whatever errors you may have.
Bad ram can cause disk MFT corruption and need for chkdisk.



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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Steve Huffman
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:51 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: [itdiscuss] Bad spots on Raid 5 array

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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