On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 6:55 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:07:09 -0600 > Bill Barry <waba...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >So reassembling is what was needed, but you don't need to force it. > >Now if you just had some way to automate that. Have you connected > >your external enclosure to the UPS so that it is protected from > >temporary power disruptions? > > Yes, everything is on my three massive APCs (connected together), even > the stereo. > > I keep thinking that the problem lurks somewhere in the crazy setup: > > 4 Intel 8TB NVMe drives, mounted two each on two long PCIe cards, > inside a 4-bay PCI enclosure, in turn connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port > on a Lenovo dock, in turn connected to my Lenovo P73 laptop via one of > its TB3 ports. The whole setup is close to two years old, during which > time this is the sixth case where the RAID has failed. > > When I got up this morning everything was running, so it couldn't have > been caused by a power glitch. There are lots of other electrical > devices around the house that tell me when PGE hasn't been playing nice > - e.g., the clocks on the range and microwave will be flashing, the > bedroom television that runs all night will be off, among others.
If it's not a power problem then maybe cabling. How long are your Thunderbolt cables? Bill
