RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Holstrom, Don
: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 I opt for the green MM's. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com wrote: You choose the red pill, or the blue pill...sometimes I opt for the green one. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Link

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Terry Dickson
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 With the huge sizes hard drives can reach, is RAID5 still better than, say, mirrored drives? Or some other way. Our consultants want RAID5 for every server... From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 6:47 PM

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
lose a single drive without failure. So you need to weigh up whether you need perf or space. Chees Ken From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Monday, 11 April 2011 10:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 With the huge sizes hard drives can

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Theoretically, you could lose half your drives without failure with RAID1...but they need to be the right half. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 RAID1 you lose 50% of disk

Raid 10 vs Raid 0+1 RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Matthew W. Ross
. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:27:54 -0700 Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Theoretically, you

Re: Raid 10 vs Raid 0+1 RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Sean Martin
-software.com] Sent: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:27:54 -0700 Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Theoretically, you could lose half your drives without failure with RAID1...but they need to be the right half. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 9:54 AM

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-11 Thread Rene de Haas
on rebuilding Raid 5 With the huge sizes hard drives can reach, is RAID5 still better than, say, mirrored drives? Or some other way. Our consultants want RAID5 for every server… huge snippage ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here that I have two hotspares in my servers. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Hornbuckle
Our new servers are ordered that way. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 IF your controller supports it, ADG (RAID6) is even better than

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Our new servers are ordered that way. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Hutchings
2011 17:13 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Would you prefer RAID6 or RAID10? Practically, what would you accept -- RAID 5, RAID 6, what? Just trying to think ahead for when I have a chance to order a SAN. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread RichardMcClary
Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 IF your controller supports it, ADG

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Aldrich
...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 You need to weigh up price vs. performance needs vs. risk tolerance. RAID6 is fantastic for data reliability, but if your workload is write intensive you're pretty screwed if you

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Don Ely
: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 You need to weigh up price vs. performance needs vs. risk tolerance. RAID6 is fantastic for data reliability, but if your workload is write intensive you're pretty screwed if you go with RAID6. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Martin Blackstone
Please respond to NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com To NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Press this button if the To is a fax number. Enter in the fax number like 123-456-7890. cc Subject RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Hutchings
] Sent: 08 April 2011 17:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Well, I don't think we'll have a whole lot of IOPS, unless / until I bring email in-house, in which case I might just have it on it's own dedicated server with plenty of disk space on-board and back

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Aldrich
. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Heaton
[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you had a SQL or intensive ERP app etc

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you had a SQL or intensive ERP app etc. It isn't black and white IMO. Buy a SAN like an Equallogic and all your disks are in one

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Don Ely
. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Heaton
. Very little writing going on, but a lot of reading of files. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Hutchings
wouldn't let the RAID level be your deciding factor, but of course it plays a part. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 April 2011 17:55 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Yeah I was keeping that in mind

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
[mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 April 2011 17:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Well, I don't think we'll have a whole lot of IOPS, unless / until I bring email in-house, in which case I might just have it on it's own dedicated server with plenty

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Cook
[mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.commailto:don@gmail.com wrote: Why are you

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Heaton
[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you had a SQL or intensive ERP

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Don Ely
- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could be more of an issue if you

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Heaton
Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There's only so much of your day

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
little writing going on, but a lot of reading of files. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Don Ely
[mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.commailto: don@gmail.com wrote

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.commailto: don@gmail.com wrote: Why are you trying to ruin my

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 April 2011 17:13 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Would you prefer RAID6 or RAID10? Practically, what would you accept -- RAID 5, RAID 6, what? Just trying to think ahead for when I

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Don Ely
. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010 then you're still not going to be pushing a lot of IOPS. It could

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
[mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Why are you trying

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Cook
, April 08, 2011 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 It's still AM here too, but that's not what he meant... John, we unsubbed you... :P On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govmailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Still in the AM here

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
we're using our file server now. Very little writing going on, but a lot of reading of files. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Aldrich
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 I thought we'd disabused you of the notion that you need a [high end] SAN?    Granted the high end ones are nice and they have their uses, but your just looking to store files

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan
dedicated server with plenty of disk space on-board and back that up to the SAN. :-) -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 You need

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
RAID220 or 221... whatever it takes. -sc -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Would you prefer RAID6 or RAID10? Practically, what would you

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Why, whatever are you talking about, Mr. Cook? -sc From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Speaking of softballs, am I the only one not getting AM emails John W. Cook

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
FTFY -sc From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 It's still AM here too, but that's not what he meant... John, we snubbed you... :P On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Joseph

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
*Ahem.* -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Yes, you're the Um, no, it's currently down for everyone. ASB (Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Bill Humphries
crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Yes, you're

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
Missed it by that || much. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Nothing to see here. Move along... -sc -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread John Cook
15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Heaton
Message - From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Apr 08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Link
08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM *To:* NT System

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steven Peck
: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Apr 08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread William Robbins
Message - From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Apr 08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Joseph Heaton
...@hedgedigger.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Apr 08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Ens
Families - Original Message - From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Apr 08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Rankin, James R
Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 You choose the red pill, or the blue pill...sometimes I opt for the green one. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: How would you know the difference between the dream world

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
-- *From: * Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com *Date: *Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:45:30 -0500 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 You

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-08 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re

Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Cook
So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the other

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
[mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I replaced the failed

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Cook
No hot spare. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011 Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+ 1 billion -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you don't have a hot spare then NO! If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Then do NOT fail a second drive before the first is finished rebuilding. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 No hot spare. John W. Cook Systems

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Bob Hartung
-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _ From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:58:01 -0500 Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread RichardMcClary
What does Dell Server Support say? I can't remember the details, but a firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my failed drive was back up and running. I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago. This was a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years previously.

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Cook
: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 I think you'll hose the RAID entirely if you do that. The rebuilding of the single replaced drive relies on all the remaining drives for the restoring the data. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Cook
for Strong Families From: richardmccl...@aspca.org richardmccl...@aspca.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:07:32 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 What does Dell Server Support say? I can't remember

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
--- El jue, 7/4/11, richardmccl...@aspca.org richardmccl...@aspca.org escribió: De: richardmccl...@aspca.org richardmccl...@aspca.org Asunto: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Fecha: jueves, 7 de abril, 2011 13:07 What does Dell

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Cook
@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:12:21 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There is a CentOS live CD from Dell called OMSA that can be used for certain models to run updates, BIOS upgrades and certain firmware updates. It also has the dset and online diags on it but you

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Joseph Heaton
From: Miguel Gonzalez miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:12:21 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There is a CentOS live CD from Dell called OMSA that can be used for certain models to run updates

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Cook
:31:45 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Guess you'll have to break out the cot, John :) John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org 4/7/2011 10:20 AM That's great info, thanks! Unfortunately there's the little detail of physically swapping the drive out. John W. Cook Systems Administrator

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Nice to hear someone else doing that. When I go out of town for training or conferences I also take my bike. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Well

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread John Hornbuckle
, 2011 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 No hot spare. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Anders Blomgren
, 2011 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 No hot spare. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
IF your controller supports it, ADG (RAID6) is even better than RAID5 + spare, IMO. -sc -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 I've

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Erik Goldoff
[mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you don't have a hot spare then NO! If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the previous drive failed, and you would currently

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Jon Harris
currently not be seeing any rebuilds with the drive you already replaced... I'd recommend against it. -sc -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 So

Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Jon Harris
-- *From*: richardmccl...@aspca.org richardmccl...@aspca.org *To*: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent*: Thu Apr 07 13:07:32 2011 *Subject*: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 What does Dell Server Support say? I can't remember the details