You’ll never guess what..
Yep, a second lot of Seagate drives has failed in the server that I mentioned a few days back…
It’s got me wondering if the drives aren’t the problem here. It’s two different series of drives, albeit from the same manufacturer, though the second lot were the more expensive line.
But either waywe’re going to UKS to check out the machine, and make sure it was built properly. Swap wires around, generally just have a nose and a check, and then install the third (and hopefully final) set of drives. Which are almost-certain to be Western Digitals. We’ve already got some of their RE-series drives working in other machines, and they’ve been fine. It’s a good job this server is only used for DRBD back-ups of VMs!
So another trip to UKS. If these drives fail, we’ll be worrying I think. 