Questions tagged [drive-failure]
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Failing disks in RAID array - strategy suggestions required
I have a linux based software RAID 5 array. SMART has just started to send me emails complaining that one of the 5 disks has a Current Pending Sector Count of 9 and also an Offline Uncorrectable Count of 9. I have done a lot of google-ing and the…
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Dell Open Manage physical disk failure predicted
I've installed the Open Manage Server Administrator on my Dell T100 to monitor RAID Controller and disks. From the Physical Controller report web page I see a table listing the two disks I have but under the column "Failure Predicted" I see the…
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Write-error on swap-device, Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
My root server at 1&1 was unresponsive on HTTP and SSH, so I logged into the serial console . It flooded my connection with endless error messages like quoted below.
I initiated a reboot and now everything seems to work properly.
After googling, I…
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Raid 1 disk failure recovery on Dell Poweredge 2850 - how to repair?
Ive just spotted an amber disk error message on my 2850, E0D76 BP drive 4 fail. Drives are ULTRA 320 SCSI. Its been a while since this server was set up so I cannot be abolutely sure my memory is accurate but I think it was
Drive 0 73GB
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recovering raid5 from 3 working drives, one has a read error
i had 4 drives, lost one drive before, and now another drive was reported by the qnap web gui as having a read error (i did a bad block scan).
now i want to insert a new drive, in the lost drive's place, and get data on it from the remaining 3…
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Resetting SMART on an SSD (hours powered on)
We've been bitten by a known issue on SanDisk SSDs (Dell or HPE branded) where they hard fail after a certain number of hours powered on - 32768 or 40000 depending on the specific model. Is there a reliable way to roll just this SMART attribute…
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Fixing a readonly-filesystem on Raid-1?
I have an Ubuntu 18 server using a software RAID-1 array, and smartctl is indicating that my /dev/sda is failing. Both Throughput_Performance and Reallocated_Sector_Ct are listed as "FAILING_NOW".
However, this has not triggered a RAID failure, as…
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How do I troubleshoot possible drive issues on ESXi 6.7?
I have a Dell Poweredge R630 with 4 drives in a RAID. I'm not sure if it's RAID 10 or RAID 5 because I didn't order or set up the server originally and I'm just the default network admin, it's not my primary job. The server is running vSphere…
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Degraded volume on Synology NAS
Today my Synology NAS's OS (DSM) told me that I have a degraded volume. The advice on their site is to replace the failed drive. I've gone ahead and bought the same drive model and capacity, and it has arrived.
However, I'm struggling to know which…
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What will happen if encountered a URE?
About hdd URE, I knew these points:
For some reasons, when harddisk reading a sector that the FEC(Foward Error Correction data) could not correct the errors on that sector, we encontered an URE.
The rating we encountered an URE is very low, but…
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RAID DP brain teaser
Someone knows what happens if the parity disk fails simultaneously with a data disk?
It is supposed to handle double disk failure but since one parity disk fails it seems impossible. Does anybody have an answer?
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Dell r510 esxi raid 10 disk failure: lost config
I had a server go offline yesterday complaining of disk failure. I re-seated the disks in the set and all of the light went green. I rebooted the machine only to find that now it won't boot into esxi.
It was complaining about a foreign config and…
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Possible disk failure. Should I be worried?
I think our HDD is failing.
Before I dump all the relevant logs: don't worry, everything is backed up daily, HDD can be replaced. I just need to confirm my suspicions.
HDD is in raid so there is another disk and (as you can see) this server is…
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HP Proliant DL380 G6 - Recover after 2nd disk failure during RAID 1 rebuild
** Disclaimer, I just recently became an administrator to this system and realized that the backups are unusable. As well, the state of administration software is terrible **
The system (Ubuntu 14.04) was running a two 146GB 10k SAS drives in RAID 1…
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Are there any risks I'm not considering for when a swap partition fails?
I'm planning to setup 4 drives in a raid10 configuration, but putting separate swap partitions on each (no raid), and letting the kernel do something similar to raid0. When/if one of the drive fails and it has swap data on it:
The kernel may…
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