Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-15 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Sun, November 14, 2010 4:17 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: > I'm not sure about NAS boxes... but HP raid stores the raid array config > on the disks themselves. Such that you could take out 4 disks of a raid > array and put them in another server and the raid would come up ok. And > this is on a diffe

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-13 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi, I'm not sure about NAS boxes... but HP raid stores the raid array config on the disks themselves. Such that you could take out 4 disks of a raid array and put them in another server and the raid would come up ok. And this is on a different raid controller. So... if you have a backup of th

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Sat, November 13, 2010 5:52 pm, David Balnaves wrote: > I'm not really sure what the best indicators are of a failing hard drive. > I've used smart on a lot of hard drives; I've seen undocumented smart > values and even hard drives function fine for a number of years when smart > reports th

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-12 Thread David Balnaves
ont Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:21 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ? I have a brand new QNAP NAS with 4 SATA HD as 'Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4', installed couple of month ago when 1st installed, using QNAP web i/f, I've run S

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-10 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, November 11, 2010 9:21 am, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 08:21 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 Andrew, thanks [/] # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010 Raid Level : raid0

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 08:21 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I can ssh to the NAS: > > - what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit down ? Does `mdadm` work? # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 although the way QNap lays out their filesystems is slightly over the top, so you have to be

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi, sometimes you can get a loose connection. If it is in a raid set you should be able to pull it out and put it back in again and it will automatically rebuild into the raid set. (depending on the raid controller...) It just might need the connectors reseated. First thing I'd try... Thanks

[SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-10 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a brand new QNAP NAS with 4 SATA HD as 'Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4', installed couple of month ago when 1st installed, using QNAP web i/f, I've run SMART tests, all were 100%, etc yesterday, it seems HD3 suffered total failure, if says: - Summary HD3 Hard disk