Recover broken Intel MatrixRAID array (with FreeBSD on it)?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject:

jontheil,

I've has some excitement with two dead drives in an 8Tb raid5 array, so I've been busy too.
The data at risk was 1200 DVDs and I still have the originals, so it would 'only' have been re ripping them.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

jontheil · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject:

I am male. So I don't worry about backups.
No, that's not true. But those years ago, I was convinced that having a RAID 5 should minimize the risk of data loss. Since then, I have learned a lot. For instance that relying on a semi-hardware RAID controller is not a very good idea. And it can happen that three disk can fail at the same time.
While I might think that I was actually not very clever, it doesn't make me feel much better knowing that other people might have even bigger troubles. So I hope for the best for everyone struggling with dead drives..!

I will have a look at my own data again soon. And any idea is most welcome.

Best regards,
Jon
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Jon Theil Nielsen