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Originally Posted by Glorindale
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That's not what happened. There were two drivers on the same array. If you lose two drivers on lets say a raid 5 array you volume is toast. It is unusual to have two drive failures on an array in such a short period of time which makes me wonder if the first hard driver failure occurred some time ago but wasn't detected (you can operate with one failed drive but take a performance hit) until the second one failed which brought the volume offline. This is why you always replace a failed hard drive ASAP.
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Two separate boxes. Raid 5 can degrade to a lower raid with less performance backup 1 drive to a 2ncd.
The odds are pretty astronomical on two separate servers that both would degrade to a critical level where a failure would mean data loss and they'd need to both be brought down and fixed for integrity.
Unless they were already failing like you stated. But both already failing is really bad from a sys admin perspective. Shit needs fixed when it goes bad.
If things were setup right there'd be a drive in a box ready to get slid into a tray and hot plugged right on.
Days is a dumbass estimate unless u have to build an entirely new array and wait on hardware. Even rebuilding an array from one working drive doesn't take very long. Its pretty much text file edit and hardware swapping. If the OS and raidsetup is already done. You just set the working drive to be the master and plug it into the new array and bamb. Nothing special needs be done.