Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

[Charles Jones]

It will be nice when SSD prices come down (and capacity goes up).  No 
more mechanical failures, then just have to worry about when the flash 
wears out. Still a downside in that even if a mechanical drive fails, 
you can sometimes still get the data back by swapping the logic board or 
having a professional data recovery service get the data off the 
platters. If an SSD drive fails it's probably hard to find a specialist 
with the equipment for munging data from the flash.

Joe Fleming wrote:
> Yeah, booting from RAID has always been a little tricky. I actually boot
> from a different 80GB drive and run the 4 drives off their own SATA
> controller. So, the system is up, I just need to get the array back up
> so I can (hopefully) continue copying the data off the array.
>
> If anyone cares, I'm using the Promise TX4 card, just straight up SATA,
> no fakeraid or anything like that. It's an old box with only PCI.... the
> card has and continues to work flawlessly.
>
> One day I'll build a REAL RAID machine. This one was working fine for a
> while, and probably would have continued to do so if the damn drives
> would stop failing!
>
> -Joe
>
> Stephen wrote:
>   
>> Linux raid is ok, but it does not recover well if it is invovled with
>> your boot partition. in our storage server we are useing a 2 port raid
>> card and then 6 onboard ports with linux mraid.
>>
>>