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Disk fail during upgrade
I have an Ultra 6, originally with 2Tb drives. I've been adding 3Tb drives one at a time, although the volume expansion fails after the drive is synched. I figured it would expand when all six drives ...
GT13 wrote: I've used a RAID in place of backups for about 15 years and this is the first time I've had a problem.
Due to the size of drives and arrays these days, your chance of something going wrong during an expansion/repair are much higher than they used to be in the days of 300GB drives and ~1TB arrays. Rebuilding arrays can take days whereas it used to take a couple of hours.
Here's a good article:
http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog ... se-raid-5/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/05/whe ... -reliable/
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