[Beowulf] Looking for external RAID vendors

[Mike Davis]

VERY INTERESTING!!!

We had a similar episode with an IBM Shark (I believe) machine. It said 
that two drives failed simultaneously,. The first time required a 
complete rebuild. The second (in 3 months) got IBM's attention. The 
problem was with the controller. We wound up needing to replace the 
controller and then discovered that neither drive was actually bad.

Ooops.




Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 5:54 am, Mike Davis wrote:
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>>We've had good luck with Apple's arrays.
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> </lurk>
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> So have we.
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> On the other hand we've had an IBM FAStT & EXP enclosure (or whatever they're 
> called today) which lost 2 SCSI drives (one in the main unit and one in the 
> EXP) within a minute, both in the same RAID-5 array.
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> Fortunately we coaxed one of them back into life long enough for the array to 
> rebuild onto the hot spare, swapped the dead one out, failed the other 
> suspect drive, rebuilt and replaced that one.
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> Turned out they were both manufactured on the same day..
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> <lurk>
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