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  • goontron
    5000!
    • Dec 2011
    • 4108
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    #1

    my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

    i have not read the mdadm logs for 3 years and a drive failed 3 months after i built the array.
    so can running a bad drive on RAID 1 for 2 years and 9 months damage anything?
    Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....

    "Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me

    Excuse me while i do something dangerous


    You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.

    Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore

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    • Mad_Professor
      A Mech Warrior
      • Feb 2011
      • 1587
      #2
      Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

      NO, assuming the good drive is actually good and hasn't done data corruption, you should be fine, replace drive and rebuild.

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        • ratdude747
          Black Sheep
          • Nov 2008
          • 17136
          • USA
          #3
          Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

          Maybe I should check mine... it's a 2 drive 3ware RAID 1 array.
          sigpic

          (Insert witty quote here)

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            • Uranium-235
              Comrade Glimmer
              • Aug 2007
              • 5042
              • US
              #4
              Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

              well OP you're running linux raid and it all depends on how the drive dies, usually you're ok

              rat, you're running hardware raid, most decent cards will begin beeping if a failed drive is detected
              Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
              ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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                • smason
                  Badcaps Legend
                  • Feb 2010
                  • 1652
                  • Canada
                  #5
                  Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                  MDADM should have emailed you about it.
                  36 Monitors, 3 TVs, 4 Laptops, 1 motherboard, 1 Printer, 1 iMac, 2 hard drive docks and one IP Phone repaired so far....

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                    • Uranium-235
                      Comrade Glimmer
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 5042
                      • US
                      #6
                      Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                      not everyone puts a real email address when they setup linux, usually its just root@localhost unless its a business server
                      Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
                      ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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                        • gerg
                          Badcaps Veteran
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 278
                          • United States
                          #7
                          Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                          OP your fine if it's been dead that long and you haven't had any issues your other drive is fine. personally I have to pay attention to my raids very closely I have a hard drive that is immenint failure over 100 miles away today that someone is running for. Can't risk data loss in my profession.

                          RD try out 3dm2 it should work on your card I don't remember the version you are running

                          http://www.3ware.com/support/downloa...9500S%20Series

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                            • goontron
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                              • Dec 2011
                              • 4108
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                              #8
                              Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                              oops its not a bad HDD, the SATA power cable burnt up. plugged the bad drive in today and it spun rite up and i could access the data from before it failed! even got some data back that was deleted but wasn't supost to be.

                              oh and is this RAID card a P.O.S?
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                              Last edited by goontron; 04-12-2013, 12:15 PM.
                              Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....

                              "Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me

                              Excuse me while i do something dangerous


                              You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.

                              Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore

                              Follow the white rabbit.

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                                • Uranium-235
                                  Comrade Glimmer
                                  • Aug 2007
                                  • 5042
                                  • US
                                  #9
                                  Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                  general rule, if its under ~$150, its fakeraid

                                  that is a via chipset, and I can guarantee you, you're better with software linux raid
                                  Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
                                  ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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                                    • goontron
                                      5000!
                                      • Dec 2011
                                      • 4108
                                      • US
                                      #10
                                      Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                      like MDADM?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdadm
                                      Last edited by goontron; 04-12-2013, 03:06 PM.
                                      Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....

                                      "Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me

                                      Excuse me while i do something dangerous


                                      You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.

                                      Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore

                                      Follow the white rabbit.

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                                        • Uranium-235
                                          Comrade Glimmer
                                          • Aug 2007
                                          • 5042
                                          • US
                                          #11
                                          Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                          well mdadm is the monitoring and management for linux software raid partitions, but yes, keep using Software, instead of fake raid
                                          Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
                                          ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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                                            • Mad_Professor
                                              A Mech Warrior
                                              • Feb 2011
                                              • 1587
                                              #12
                                              Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                              Originally posted by Uranium-235
                                              general rule, if its under ~$150, its fakeraid

                                              that is a via chipset, and I can guarantee you, you're better with software linux raid
                                              YEP! Truth.

                                              Originally posted by goontron
                                              like MDADM?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdadm
                                              Originally posted by Uranium-235
                                              well mdadm is the monitoring and management for linux software raid partitions, but yes, keep using Software, instead of fake raid
                                              mdadm or zfs works great since most processors are dual core or more and can handle the extra cycles.

                                              Personally I've been using zfs on linux.
                                              http://zfsonlinux.org/

                                              You have to compile and install it as a kernel module once that's done you're good to go, you need to have raw disks with no partitions or anything, zfs handles all that. ZFS on linux is getting a lot of support, so I don't see it slowing down or becoming abandon-ware.

                                              The other one is zfs-fuse, it has to run in the user space, which is annoying but works.

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                                                • cheapie
                                                  null
                                                  • Jul 2010
                                                  • 849
                                                  • USA
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                                  Still no love for LVM these days?

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                                                    • Mad_Professor
                                                      A Mech Warrior
                                                      • Feb 2011
                                                      • 1587
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                                      Originally posted by cheapie
                                                      Still no love for LVM these days?
                                                      yeah but LVM can't do raid 5/6, 10, 0+1 or do triple parity*ZFS* and lvm can be a bit complicated when you need it to do a certain action or setup. Not too mention I chose not to use it again when I found out it didn't have write barriers until 2.6.33 which are needed to stop filesystem corruption, I found out the hard way.

                                                      I have seen admins and users use LVM on top of mdadm successfully which is pretty much what ZFS and btrfs is except for the checksumming, self-healing, arc cache devices, De-duplications, diffs and dumps, encryption and few other things.

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                                                        • Elysarian
                                                          Badcaps Veteran
                                                          • Mar 2013
                                                          • 200
                                                          • United Kingdom
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                                          This thread has just reminded me that I have a Compaq Smart Array card sitting around doing nothing - I really ought to instal it in the server I have that's currently sitting in a corner with an Adaptec 2930 controller in it...

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                                                            • goontron
                                                              5000!
                                                              • Dec 2011
                                                              • 4108
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                                                              #16
                                                              Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                                              Originally posted by Mad_Professor
                                                              YEP! Truth.





                                                              mdadm or zfs works great since most processors are dual core or more and can handle the extra cycles.

                                                              Personally I've been using zfs on linux.
                                                              http://zfsonlinux.org/

                                                              You have to compile and install it as a kernel module once that's done you're good to go, you need to have raw disks with no partitions or anything, zfs handles all that. ZFS on linux is getting a lot of support, so I don't see it slowing down or becoming abandon-ware.

                                                              The other one is zfs-fuse, it has to run in the user space, which is annoying but works.
                                                              i prefer software raid anyway, much better to work with if you ask me.
                                                              Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....

                                                              "Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me

                                                              Excuse me while i do something dangerous


                                                              You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.

                                                              Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore

                                                              Follow the white rabbit.

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                                                                • severach
                                                                  Badcaps Legend
                                                                  • Aug 2007
                                                                  • 1055
                                                                  • USA
                                                                  #17
                                                                  Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                                                  Software RAID is good for the modes where the cost difference between software and hardware is nil. That's RAID 0,1,10 all of which can use DMA transfers directly to user memory. Little is gained by adding a hard card in the middle of the transfers. Softraid fakeraid Raid (F) 5 is slow because the DMA transfer must go to the RAID driver memory to be processed then copied out to user memory.
                                                                  sig files are for morons

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                                                                    • shovenose
                                                                      Send Doge Memes
                                                                      • Aug 2010
                                                                      • 6575
                                                                      • USA
                                                                      #18
                                                                      Re: my raid 1 array has been running with a dead drive for 3 years now!

                                                                      Linux software RAID is fine for casual use however for a VPS node that has 30 customer's servers raping the disks 24/7 hardware RAID is a must

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