SilverTip257 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:43 PM, <m.roth at 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.... mark