troubleshooting Question
RAID 5 with Three Hard Drives - Rebuild or Not Rebuild? HELP!
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I have RAID 5 with Three Hard Drives. This is a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with PERC 4/DI.
One of the drives is failing on an important server. In RAID I see:
Array Disk 0:0 Failed SCSI ProductID Rev0003 Seagate 136.63 GB capacity
Array Disk 0:1 Online SCSI ProductID Rev0003 Seagate 136.63 GB capacity
Array Disk 0:2 Online SCSI ProductID Rev0003 Seagate 136.63 GB capacity
I am not sure why the disk failed, but in Windows Server 2000 I see http://prntscr.com/evbuv6
Questions:
1) Should I rebuild the one failed drive, and then put it online?
2) Or should I buy a new hard drive and hot swap it?
3) What's the worse that can happen?
One of the drives is failing on an important server. In RAID I see:
Array Disk 0:0 Failed SCSI ProductID Rev0003 Seagate 136.63 GB capacity
Array Disk 0:1 Online SCSI ProductID Rev0003 Seagate 136.63 GB capacity
Array Disk 0:2 Online SCSI ProductID Rev0003 Seagate 136.63 GB capacity
I am not sure why the disk failed, but in Windows Server 2000 I see http://prntscr.com/evbuv6
Questions:
1) Should I rebuild the one failed drive, and then put it online?
2) Or should I buy a new hard drive and hot swap it?
3) What's the worse that can happen?
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