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Hi,

 

I inhertited a Proliant DL180 G6, built by my predecessor which is our Veeam backup server. I believe the server was built with 3 x 2TB drives as supplied, to which 4 x 2TB drives were added at a later date. The server OS shows a spanned drive covering a 3525GB & a 5588GB drive, presumably two seperate RAID arrays?

 

For the last few weeks, I have noticed that the bottom left drive, when looking at the server front, had an amber light, and have been meening to investigate what that meant. However after a windows update that required a reboot yesterday, the server returned a message from the Smart Array P410, bay 1 error - Unrecoverable Media Errors Detected on Drives ...Errors will be fixed automatically when these sectors are overwritten. Backup and restore recommended. Or words to that effect, I wish I'd taken a photo on reflection. And the message wasn't exactly the same on every boot attempt.

 
Following which the server hung on a black screen with a flashing cursor.
 
On removing and reinserting the drive that had an amber light, it appeared to go green, but then the drive above it had no light (sure it did before!). However this time the OS booted and finished it's 50,000 registry checks, then rebooted. Back to a flashing cursor.
 
Then removed the first drive (top left), re-inserted and this time the OS booted, and has remained up all day, the top left drive appears to be dead, but the server is operational:
 
My question is, is that drive dead? Can I replace it and expect the RAID to rebuild? The backups the night before were still running the next day, which fits with the notion that you can expect poor write speed when a drive fails in RAID5. What are my replacement options?
 
Thanks in advance
 
Martyn

 


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