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Disaster Strikes! Advice requested!
I have an NV+ that has failed in a way that I have not seen. If I try to power it up, I see that the 2nd and 4th disk status LEDs are not lit. The power LED blinks a few times and then goes out, then ...
TeknoJnky wrote:
jsdeprey wrote: installing the OS on a single drive in the array seems strange.
its not stored on a single drive (unless there is only a single drive installed).
I'm not sure of the exact format, but the os partition is at least mirrored to one other drive, if not in a raid0+1 array.
I believe it is RAID-1, such that the OS is mirrored across all drives and always accessible irrespective of which drive fails/is removed
That's why the capacity of each drive is reported as reduced by 4GB (for x86 units) in Frontview >> Volumes - the 4GB being the root partition
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