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PE 2950 HDD 0 Fault error

I just came into the office tonight, on my 2950 with a RAID5 (3 Disk) I have the following error:

E1810 HDD 0 Fault

I called Dell support and they are sending me a replacement drive. any suggestions? I don't really want to re-seat the drive or mess with it. What do I do?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

if the disk has failed replace the disk as soon as possible with the new replacement when it arrives.

the RAID 5 array will start to rebuild automatically.

operation will continue at present at reduced performance.

What you do is be patient, calm, and wait for replacement disk.

tips54

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Thanks han,

here's a question Dell is shipping me a replacement to arrive possibly Monday.
I have a conference 4 hours from my office starting tomorrow until Tuesday at Noon. I contemplating to I go and swap the drive on Tuesday or cancel the trip and wait for the drive and prep just in case one other drive fails?
This server with the Raid5 is running vmware4ESXi and host 3 vm's. (SQL, Fileshare, and web)
Do I not got????

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madunix

It's a hardware failure. Need to get it replaced from Dell ASAP. You need to log a call with them.

tips54

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I went and the drives came Monday and I swapped them as soon as I got back in town on Tuesday. thanks a bunch. I also ordered and extra from Amazon as a backup