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Dreaded Raid5 Nightmare - Another drive fails during rebuild of another failed drive
Yesterday evening, one drive failed on my 6 drive RN51600 in XRAID Raid 5. I had a spare on hand, and immediately put in a replacement drive and a rebuild started. This morning, when I came in......
Everything has turned out all right. The NAS was backed up every night to Netgear's ReadyVault which actually had support for backup snapshots so I have plenty choices of how to recover. Most of the critical data has already been restored.
I had planned to restructure the unit in RAID10 next year anyway, so the failure just accelerated my plans by a few months.....If anything, it has made me reconsider RAID6 and which drives I put in the unit.
I'm not a big fan of RAID6 or WD Red Drives -- most of my datacenter deployments are RAID10 across 10-20 15K RPM SAS disks. But, for the small office sensitive to noise and carying more about energy efficiency than performance,which the ReadyNAS 516 is designed for -- it looks like RAID6 w/ WD RED 5900RPM drives is the trusted safe approach.
Going forward, I think the next time we upgrade the NAS I'll get the 8 drive 628x model....for random smile read/write ops, spindle count will be more important than RPM or RAID level and that is really the major area of performance concern w/ these units. It would be nice if Netgear also sold them w/ more ECC RAM - It can't be too expensive to put a few more 8GB ECC dimms in each chassis.
Good info -- whats confusing is that the NAS still thinks it can recover, it's doing a resync/rebuild right now after I put in a replacement for the failed 2nd drive, I'm not sure how that is possible.
If a 2nd drive in an xraid raid5 volume fails while the volume is in the process of rebuild from degraded status, shouldn't the volume switch to failed status?
Instead, the NAS says it is in degraded mode again and has started another rebuild.
In any case, yes, I'm thinking of resetting to factory defaults and then setting up a new volume. I've just ordered 3 new drives...the most that I can justify at the moment so that we can have newer drives in a new volume.
Old volume had 5 Seagate 4TB Enterprise and 1 WDC 4TB gold drive which wasn't optimum because the fans ran faster to keep the WDC gold drive cool while the Seagate drives ran hot. Going forward, I don't see any point of getting any better drive than the WDC RED 8TB which seems to have a great cache/accoustics/operating temp combination at the slight cost of only a 3yr rather than 5yr warranty. Generally, we're removing seagate drives everywhere here because while they were good for decades, something has been wrong for the last 2yrs there. WDC has had quite a turn around. I'll probably be putting gold drives in all servers and red drives in NAS's.
mattmarlowe wrote:
Going forward, I don't see any point of getting any better drive than the WDC RED 8TB which seems to have a great cache/accoustics/operating temp combination at the slight cost of only a 3yr rather than 5yr warranty.
I use the Reds myself (6 TB model in my main RN526x NAS, 8 TB in my RN524x backup), and have had good luck with them.
Though I do suggest enterprise-class drives for NAS with more than 8 bays.
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