Mirror, Mirror

[billroper]

I needed to reboot the studio computer for one reason or another on Sunday. As it came back up from the reboot, I saw the message indicating that one of the drives in the RAID mirror had failed. This is what we call a Bad Thing (TM).

I figured that if one drive had gone, the other drive was now a ticking time bomb, so I copied the entire musical contents of the drive (something on the close order of 300 MB) off to the NAS drive upstairs. Then I went on Amazon and ordered a new pair of hard drives with "same day delivery", which in this case meant that I would get them on Tuesday. Fortunately, this only cost $5.99 on top of Amazon Prime, so it was actually a much better deal than trying to get them from most anywhere else.

The pair arrived this afternoon and I strapped one of them in to replace the failed drive. The rebuild of the mirrored pair is now up to 97% complete, so it should finish by morning. Then I can strap in the other new drive to replace the working (but possibly ticking time bomb) drive and let it rebuild the RAID mirror again.

And then I can get back to it. :)

Comments

[hms42]

Glad to hear that crisis averted. How old was the dead drive?

[billroper]

Four years old, from the look of it.

[hms42]

It might still be under warranty, depending on brand and model you purchased.

I would not trust the other drive in a critical environment, but as a possible data transfer with warning.

[rinioth.livejournal.com]

I'd compare batch numbers and manuf. dates on the two drives, if they are not similar then I'd be inclined to use the okay drive for something else rather than throwing it in the trash.