Disk Failure Detected...

Pian wrote:

ferg wrote: I've just had an additional drive failed when I had to poweroff due to a power cut. I have a raid6 Pro with 4 of these ST2000DL003 drives and 2 of a different type. The unit was previously in a single failed drive state which I've been talking to Support about. When booted back up the "failed disc" started resynching. It reached 65% and then froze. I cannot access the unit. RAIDar now indicates that two drives have failed. Frontview is unreachable. Note that the additional failed drive is also a ST2000DL003. The scariest post I've read in quite a long time. I'm in the ridiculous position of trying not to use data on my ReadyNAS in case I get a double failure too. And with disks not yet coming down in price it's as if if I can hear a bomb ticking ... :(

I hear you. Luckily for me I went with RAID6 when I realised just how unreliable the original five ST2000DL003 drives were, by purchasing a sixth different disc! Still it's highly probable that a third disc will fail and then I'm back into the task of putting 6GB's of backup back.

If discs were not now so expensive I would be at the shop now and putting these ST2000DL003 in the bonfire.