December 29th, 2003
RAID Failure
I had my first drive failure today since 1988 or something. I knew it would happen sometime, but I typically turn over hardware so rapidly that I never have anything die on me. First there were random “clunking” noises… SMART was reporting that the drive was probably going to die soon as well… then the primiary spindle of my of home-office file server died on me about 30mins ago. The bad news is that I lost an 80gig drive… the good news is that that second drive is working correctly and I have most all my data migrated off to my new replacement server.
If you have a Linux file server, I highly recommend you implement SMART monitoring on your drives – its pretty cool. In fact, you can read about it in this month’s LinuxJournal. Great magazine. 🙂