Re: [HW] Do the HDD cages in rack mount chassis indicate visual/audio HDD failure?

[Arun Khan <knura9@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Arun Khan <knura9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I pulled ONCE the wrong disk out of a Raid5 array. :-(
>>> You know what that means?
>>
>> You mean, it is not OK to pull out a "functioning" disk?  Pulling one
>> disk out of RAID 5 should be OK.  Am I missing something?
>
> Usually you would be swapping drives to repair an already-broken raid.
>  Unless you have a hot spare and the raid has already rebuilt on it,
> pulling a working disk will take a 2nd drive out of the failed raid5
> and kill it.
>

Thanks I get it now :)

-- Arun Khan
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