Hey - -- -- - - --
One of the wonderful little surprises that greeted me coming home
from vacation was that my server raid software is reporting a pending
failure.
Specifically:
- the Box is W2K server, fully SP'ed
- the utility reporting it is Promise Technology "FactCheck"
monitoring utility
- the disks are Maxtor 120 gb, IDE's (4g120j6)
- the RAID controller is "MBFastTrak 133 Lite (5275)"
- the utility says that one of them is "critical; failure predicted"
- when I boot the machine, it tells me to power down and replace
the disk.
I am perusing the manufacturer's web site as we "speak," but in the
meanwhile: people who are better at the hardware end than me:
Questions:
- Do I have to replace it with exactly the same model? A quick
search finds few new ones, mostly refurbs as i would expect with a
3-4 year old drive.
- Better to start over with 2 new drives?
- Other/better questions I should be asking, but don't know enough
to do?
Thanks
Ken
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