Entry for March 25, 2007 – RAID woes

The problem with complicated hard drive arrays sets and such is that they are, well, complicated.
One of the drives in my file server failed, and I was on task to get the drive replaced. I ran into a problem while doing this, another drive was intermittently failing, and it was part of the degraded array. This caused the array to go out of sync and I thought I had lost everything. I went into panic mode. This was almost 200GBs of music files that I have been collecting for years.
I was able to keep it running with a fan blowing directly on it (that’s what the picture is of), and force the array to re-sync based on one of the drive’s sync info, and am now in the process of moving all the data off of that array set.