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![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Rural heck
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Rep Power: 7 | The onboard RAID controller on one of our servers has died. Since the server is 3 years old we were considering replacing it. The data drives are in a Raid 5 array. How easy would it be to move the drives to a new server? I'm consurned I couldn't get the new server to detect the drivers as already being setup in a RAID. Anyone done this before? |
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 67 | If you need to salvage the data in the array, you will need an identical raid controller (preferably the same firmware version too). As the server is so old, your best bet is ebay. If you don't care about what's on the drive, just shove the new hardware in and setup from scratch. It should all work fine. |
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As Geoff said, ebay is your best bet or look out for possible returned but working versions of the same motherboard. Making sure they are the exact same motherboard helps enormously as the RAID should be the same (was in my case).. | |
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Rep Power: 9 | You cant move an array from one type of raid card to another, but you should be able to if you use the same raid cards in both servers - well I've never seen it done anyway - wouldnt mind being corrected though? Butuz |
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 67 | In one of my old jobs the servers were on a 5 year maintenance contract. We had several raid cards go bang. As I explained, as long as you used an identical raid card, the repairs went fine. |
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Rep Power: 7 | Thanks for everyone's input. At the point where I posted we weren't sure if it had died before of after last nights backup. We've restored the data from tape onto our print server. Hopefully we'll be getting a new server. |
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Rep Power: 11 | Damn, i feel sorry for your print server |
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We were a bit panicy when I first posted. It's our Sims server........ ........ and OFSTED are in. :cry: | |
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Rep Power: 34 | Ouch!... Never rains when it pours eh? Just a thought but one thing I've started doing is using off motherboard RAID cards so that if the worst happens I can always replace the card and not the board or vice versa. What was the motherboard out of interest? |
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Rep Power: 11 | I've recently made this mistake with an IBM server I bought - they always used to be hardware RAID but now apparently the IBM controllers are sort of half motherboard and half software. It's a crock of shyte because now Linux takes over the whole RAID thing rather than letting the controller do it. |
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| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Sims moved to a new domain | edie209 | MIS Systems | 9 | 16-11-2007 07:22 PM |
| Anybody moved to WDS and ImageX yet? | Quackers | Windows | 39 | 27-09-2007 01:53 PM |
| How do I add a new disk to an existing RAID 5 array?? | kkkk1 | Windows | 10 | 13-09-2007 01:38 PM |
| 12 bay esata storage array | fooby | Hardware | 8 | 22-06-2007 08:35 PM |
| Recover data from broken RAID 0 array | indie | Hardware | 23 | 08-02-2006 11:42 AM |
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