On 1/11/06, C. Bensend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the part I was asking about - you'd have to shutdown to > replace that failed drive when it's convenient. Right? I've > never touched a SATA anything in my life.
This is in a Supermicro 932 chassis, with the 15 slot SATA hotswap backplane. Totally unmanaged which quite annoyed me. The card does do auto rebuild. The drives are 300GB Maxline III, in a RAID 1+0 (striping across 3 mirrored pairs) with 2 hot spares. During testing we managed to cause multiple drive fails and even a double fail, which was later attributed to the idiots who assembled it using cheap 26 gauge SATA cables harvested from low-end motherboard packages. Once I replaced them with the 24 gauge cables that *came*in*the*LSI*box* the stopped having a drive failure every other day. I've got the rebuild rate set to 30% and generally takes 5 to 6 hours with the 300GB drives. RAID5 would probably be a faster rebuild (more spindles to read from). -- Jon Simola Systems Administrator ABC Communications
