[CentOS] Raid5 issues

[Ruslan Sivak]

That's possible, but that's no reason to kill my array.  I have the 
server in my cube for now while I'm setting it up, but plan to put it in 
a server room later on.  I don't, however, want a simple heat issue to 
cause me to loose all my data.  Should I try raid6?

Russ

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0400, Ruslan Sivak wrote:
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>> So when I couldn't get the raid10 to work, I decided to do raid5.  
>> Everything installed and looked good.  I left it overnight to rebuild 
>> the array, and when I came in this morning, everything was frozen.  Upon 
>> reboot, it said that 2 of the 4 devices for the raid5 array failed.  
>> Luckily, I didn't have any data on it, but how do I know that the same 
>> thing won't happen when I have real data on it?
>>
>> I kind of feel that the problem might be that I'm using SATA drives, and 
>> they probably tried to self-correct and error and took too long, and the 
>> raid controller assumed that it was a bad drive, and took it out of the 
>> array.  The question is, is there anything I can do about it?
>>
>>     
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> It could also be that the drives are overheating.
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