On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:44:13 +0930 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 20:40 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Yes, it is a hardware RAID. The BIOS is very confusing but it does > > not say anything in there (anymore). > > Hardware RAID *relies* on the hardware. If you lose the hardware, you > lose access to your files. So, a motherboard dying can make the files > useless on a perfectly good drive. > > You'd need to replace the hardware with a suitable equivalent (which > may not be possible) to re-access your data. This is why we recommend > against using hardware RAID. > > If you're using RAID for data backups, you absolutely don't want to be > dependent on particular hardware for the drives. > > Did you (or someone else) take anti-static precautions when building > your PC, or later handling? If not, you set yourself up for this kind > of thing. People don't usually instantly kill static-sensitive > components, they usually seriously degrade them. They apparently work > fine at the time, but later on they fail. And because of the time > frame, you don't associate the failure with putting your system > together. Thanks very much! The machine came from Dell. It is possible that this sort of precaution was taken but I do not know. I was unaware that hardware RAID is not recommended. I am not as bothered about the / drive, because my /home is somewhere else (on a 2TB system with both hardware RAID and another mount where it backs up via an hourly cron job) but it is a nuisance not being able to do anything. I will look into the software RAID. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
