We have been discussing the love affair I have with stale drives in a RAID five array and how best to determine if in fact one exists. I explained how the NTFS file system data is normally laid out and the fact that the old and new data, as well as how long the drive […]
Determining a Stale Hard Drive in Most RAIDs
In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure that we do not have a stale hard drive in the array. Although I did not cover how one determines if in fact a stale hard drive exists, I will mention it now. […]
Check Your RAID Consistency Before A Rebuild
Over the years one of the most consistent problems with RAID recovery is the rebuild. I would estimate that nearly 40 percent of the RAIDs that we cannot recover are due exclusively to the fact that a technician executed a rebuild before verifying the following three items. 1. Hardware: The RAID went down for some […]
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