SilverTip257 wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
SilverTip257 wrote:
Is anybody here monitoring Dell SAS6/iR RAID health? I have a mix of CentOS 5.9 and 6.3 installs on the PE1950s.
<snip> Um, um, er, uh... how old are the PE1950's? Let me urge you in the *strongest* terms to get your PO's out for replacements, yesterday if possible.
I hear you. Frankly, I have to work with what hardware I'm given. Even if that means making a shoe string into an Ethernet cable.
We had a lot of them. Then, about two years ago, they started dying - inside of a month, we had three? four? die, and it continued. What was happening was the RAID controller - if you really want, I can go look up, in old emails, the error number that showed on the LCD screen. When
that
happened, it was gone, dead.
I will admit to being amazed at the quality control, that they *all* started dying in such a short timespan.
<snip> Please feel free to pass what I said along to your management. You might consider coming up with a disaster plan for how you'd deal with two of these servers dying within a month, and present that to them when you talk to them....
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