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Hi im running a unix merchant system on a del PE2800 with two hard drives which are mirrored. im assuming its raid 1 setup. drive 1 has failed and aparrently drive 2 is failing. the system still works and data appears to be stored but backups are sometimes completing but sometimes showing errors. the computer company is wanting to charge nearly 2k for putting 3 hard drives in and rebuilding the system? (not sure what they mean) being a novice. is it not possible to get a couple of hard drives and copy the tape data on. judt seems excessive when the hard drives are £60 each as per their quote and the rest is labour.
were installing a new system in a couple of months anyway and im thinking of risking keeping this one running on a dodgy drive ?
any advice or help would be appreciated.
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October 21st, 2019 08:00
Fez78,
Have you tried simply inserting a replacement drive for the existing failed drive? You may be able to just rebuild it with a replacement.
I believe what they are discussing is a capacity expansion, as well as a raid level migration. They would rebuild the existing drives and then after that is done then add another drive to migrate to a raid 5 from the raid 1. I don't think you need to do this, if you just have a replacement drive that matches (or is larger and faster than the existing drives) you can do a rebuild and improve stability until the server is decommissioned.
Hope this helps.