On 3 May 2000, Mark D Fowle wrote:
I have heard a few horror stories lately about netapps and multi-disk raid failures. Has anyone out there experienced this and what did you do for recovery ? Where there any warnings? I have not had this happen and would like to do as much as possible to prevent it.
I'll say this much for these Hardy Beasts - we had our A/C die on us overnight once, and I came in to find our filer dead. We had to swap out ALL the parts on the filer to bring it back up (it's a F330 we've had a few years and the room was 90+ degrees). However, didn't loose a drive! Knock on wood, we've never had a two-disk failure. To me, this illustrates that the chances of a double drive failure are quite low.
Also, I'm always look at the drive lights as I walk by to make sure I didn't miss a log message about a drive failure.
my $0.02...
----------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO