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Does mdstat showing very different block sizes for identical drives indicate a failing drive?

One of my servers has a RAID1 array composed of two 240GB SSDs. It is managed/controlled via Linux, not via a hardware card. Recently, for no apparent reason, the array needed rebuilding. I rebooted the server a few times recently, so perhaps there…
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Server throwing error on drive: status: { DRDY ERR }, error: { ABRT }, failed command: READ DMA EXT

I have a server from Red Barn that has been throwing errors accessing its local SATA flash drive. Here are some facts: I'm running Ubuntu 15.10, although two other similar Supermicro servers are as well, with no trouble. The root drive is a SATA…
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RAID5 needs drive to be added every reboot

I have a 3 disk RAID5 mdadm array total 4TB on an Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS. Since a kernel panic caused by a device unrelated to the array and that has been already replaced, after every reboot the array starts [UU_] So I always have to run mdadm…
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RAID 5 failure Ubutnu 12.04 not rebooting

I have Ubuntu 12.04 setup with software RAID 5. Dmesg started to show I/O errors continuously. I thought to reboot the system and lo and behold, it got stuck on GRUB ERROR Loading 21 I then used an Ubuntu 14.04 USB flash drive to boot and then…
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zfsonlinux, raidz1: two disk corruptions: How I can use dd/dd_rescue and deceive zpool?

I have zfsonlinux (Centos 7), and raidz1. And I have trouble: two disks are dying. The first disk have Raw_Read_Error_Rate failure in SMART and Reallocated_Sector_Ct error (the disk has run out of free sectors to relocate data) The second disk has…
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Diagnose RAID utilisation on a failed drive

I am facing a problem on a server I didn't install, the former guy isn't here anymore to explain me anything. Some processes crashed due to what seems to be a disk failure, so I searched in the logs and found lines like this in /var/log/messages : …
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HP ProLiant disk failure, proceed or do not proceed

We have a HP proliant DL385 G7 server that’s a vmware ESXI host with a failed hard drive – the drive is a HP SAS-MDL, 7.2 K, 2TB. When we boot the server we get the attached message and we are not sure which option we should go for (f1 or f2) …
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Recovering a RAID5 with 2 disks out of the array

I don't want to approach this in a trial-and-error manner as I know this is the best thing to do if I want to loose my data. I have a server with 4*2TB disks in RAID5 (yes I know it's not wise) on a Ubuntu 14.04. Most of my data is in /home on RAID…
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How can you force linux software raid not to disable a disk for recovery?

I'm trying to recover data from a RAID5 array. 2 of my 4 disks unexpectedly failed at the same time. I am able to start the array by forcing it. mdadm --assemble --scan --force The array starts up ckean but degraded root@omv:~# mdadm --detail…
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How to change / replace a failed "system" disk on EMC Clariion CX500?

On the first DAE, the first 5 disks are considered "special" because they host the OS of the storage array. One of those 5 disks is faulty : what is the procedure to change it? By the way, what kind of RAID configuration is set up on those?
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KVM LVM-based guest... kernel: Buffer I/O error on device. Failing drive?

Currently setting up a small KVM host to run a few VMs for a small business. The server has 2 drives in software md RAID 1, then I have it set as a PV in an LVM setup. Guests and hosts are all CentOS 6.4 64bit. The / partition of the KVM guests are…
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MacBooks are destroying SSDs

I'm opening this topic to find the cause of our SSD failure rate of +50%. We work with Mac (13" Macbook Pro & 13" Macbook Air), with installations of both Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Ubuntu. 90% of the users develop websites, the others do basic…
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Smartarray hpacucli command not showing individual drive status

Having a problem with the HPACUCLI cmd on linux, at boot a hp p600 card is reporting an error, but I'm unable to determine which drive it is. Instead of listing the separate drive status, I get one drive status repeated for the array Smart Array…
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HDD Failed in Windows Server 2008 R2

We have a windows server 2008 r2 installed dedicated server. Our provider moved our server to their new data center location recently. After this process, we cannot able to open our server. They said "disk is failed". Disk was not showing in bios…
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Linux mdadm RAID5 data recovery with one drive failed, one drive failing

Improbably I had two drives fail in the same Raid5 array within 2 weeks of one another. Which means the array is dead. Yes yes hot spares not being lazy about replacing the failed drive I know. But let's move past that. The data is somewhat backed…
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