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HPE SSA : replace both HDD & bay in a logical volume

We have a HPE DL380p G8 server with smart array P420i in Slot 0. There are 4 drives in a RAID-10 array and 3 drives in a RAID-5 array. There is no spare drive. Yesterday one of the drives in RAID-10 array (in 1I:2:1) failed and we replaced it with…
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What's the normal order of messages in dmesg when a USB HDD is failing?

I have a USB hard drive attached to a Debian GNU/Linux server. I'm trying to format it (NTFS), with this command: # mkntfs -v /dev/sdd1 which takes a few hours, because it checks the disk too. While checking, dmesg -T shows the following: [Wed Jan…
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Drive failed or can be still used?

I've the following WD drive (3TB) that gave me a problem (I was unable to access any file: even an ls command on it caused a never ending wait). Here some details on the disk: Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Disk…
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Disk issues: irq_stat 0x20000000, host bus error

When copying large files (50+GB) from an NVMe disk to a SATA 7200rpm HDD disk I see the following error in the logs on a fully patched Ubuntu 20.04: Aug 08 00:45:59 host kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x20 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Aug…
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desperate attempt to head off RAID 0 failure, can i copy a disk with dd?

A colleague has been using a 10TB RAID 0 array to edit a film. He suddenly realized it's 98% full. The array has started seriously acting up, but cooperates grudgingly if you shut down all processes that might index this array and interact only with…
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How Can I Understand this Vendor-Specific SMART Attribute?

There are two contexts for this question, a general and a specific. Generally, how does one find the meaning for vendor-specific S.M.A.R.T. attributes? I have searched the web high and low but found only partial information. Are there hard-to-find…
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Recover data from broken RAID 1 drive

I need to save files from a Buffalo NAS Linkstation with two physical drives that is not working anymore (2TB each, Raid 1). Error message says: The bad sectors in the hard drive may have reached a dangerous level. Replace the hard drive. I…
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HP Proliant DL180 G6 HHD failure and replacement

One of the HP HDD in our HP Proliant DL180 G6 had failed, I've replaced the failed HDD with a standard 1 TB Seagate HDD, the Array controller won't start rebuilding on a Seagate, I had the new Seagate HDD in for about a week and the controller…
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What incident may happen that stops a VM on Azure?

We were hosting a Website and a CMS at an external supplier. They told us that they host everything on Microsoft Azure. Yesterday I saw that my website was down and contacted them. Later that day they told me that our server had a "virtual…
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Adjusting spare sectors on SATA drive?

As far as I know, hard drives usually have a number of spare sectors to which data is remapped/reallocated from faulty sectors. Is it possible to increase the number of these spare sectors (at the expense of usable data capacity) to make the drive…
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How can I detect hard drive failures?

I am in charge of a large number of Windows servers. Recently, many have been reporting hard drive errors with event codes 11 and 55. CHKDSK indicates that the drives are fine most of the time. What other diagnostic tools could I use to more…
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Has my RAID drive failed?

I checked the output of my server today and it said: root@s01 [~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 1.1 Creation Time : Sat Jul 7 18:23:24 2012 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 2929751932 (2794.03 GiB 3000.07 GB) …
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Dell Poweredge 2900 - Raid 10 - 7 Disks - 3 failed - Am i screwed?

Just want to know how screwed I am, I have Dell Poweredge 2900 running Raid 10 - 7 disks and 3 have failed. Edit: I'm blind. There are a total of 8 disks and from I can see 3 have failed. Here some pics: 1 2 [3][3]
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