In Reply to: Re: RAID Array ? posted by AbeCollins on May 11, 2007 at 09:37:49:
Yeah, I know. I'm wondering if it's going to fail again soon and then should I replace all the drives. The server is about 3 years old, so I'd expect it'd be fine for another year or two before we need to consider replacing it to avoid failures.Now, I'm wondering if I should reconfigure the new server. It's a Dell 2850 with split backplane and 6 drives. Two 73GB drives are configured for the system in a mirrored configuration. The data is on a four disk RAID 5 configuration with 300GB drives. I could change that to use 3 drives and set up on as a hot spare. We'd lose 200GB or so of storage, but that's not really an issue as I've got 700GB free now. The downside it that it'd take a few days to rebuild, but I've got time now before we go live on it.
Any recommendations?
-Rod
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