[lug] RAID Controller Recommendations

[David L. Anselmi]

Glenn English wrote:
>
> On Sep 18, 2014, at 4:44 PM, George Sexton<georges at mhsoftware.com>  wrote:
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>> In the early days I remember having a server tank because one of the drives failed.
>
> I had a drive fail. It's been a while, but IIRC, I got email about it from the software, and the
> server kept on going. I got a new drive, told mdadm the failed drive was going away, installed
> the replacement, told mdadm the drive was back, and the software rebuilt the array.

I had a similar experience years ago.  The only difficulty was that sda died and the server wouldn't 
boot sdb automatically.  So it took a trip to the BIOS to recover it.  But everything else was as 
expected.

Dave