15 Feb
2013
15 Feb
'13
8:43 p.m.
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.
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.
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