Friday, October 21, 2005

Raid? What for?

A couple of months ago i had a terrible Harddisk crash and lost all my data. Therefore i buyed 2 SATA Discs and build a RAID Array for more protection.

Yesterday i thought it is about time to make a Backup (which means burining all sensitive Data on CD)....

As i went home and started the computer my Raid Controller said good Evening and i have a critical Error in the Array.... WHAT THE *%/§)%"!!!

I mean 3 months and already problems is not a good way is it? I am now triing to save as much as i can, but why had i build the damn array if it fails so soon?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, just a short comment: you built the array not to have no failures anymore but to not loose your data, right? Any RAID is perfectly legal to fail; as long as its data does not. At least your were using mirroring, not striping, right? :-)

Dready said...

Yes RAID 1 (mirroring).. but to the failure: I did expect the damn thing to work longer than 3 months! ;-)