Archive for the ‘RAID’ Category

It’s alive!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I've recently been building servers again. Aside from the usual 2U stuff, I thought I'd show a few pictures of the current project I'm working on. This 4U Supermicro chassis is destined to be used as our backup/storage server at the co-lo facility. VM backups, database backups, general file store, ...

I’m going to cry.

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

If you can remember back to my woes with SATA-II disks and 3Ware 9500S cards, you'll probably be feeling my pain right about now. The wonderful set of Western Digital RE2 drives, which saved the day all those months ago, now seem to be dropping out of the RAID5 array. :( However, ...

The woes of incompatible RAID hardware

Friday, June 29th, 2007

So in the last few weeks, we've been wondering why all these sets of new 500GB hard disks have been degrading in their RAID-5 array, merely hours after being created. Which was also around the time that I'd finished setting up Gentoo, frustratingly. Eventually it was decided that instead of making ...

You’ll never guess what..

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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 ...

A fortnight of ups and downs (literally)

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

It's been two weeks (roughly) since I started my placement, and there has been quite a bit to learn. My first week has given me time to get to grips with my new environment, and also gave me a steep introduction into the systems that I'm going to be responsible for ...