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In response to "Yay! Our huge 1.5 TB hard drive filled with projects that were not backuped crashed and we lost everything! Yipie!" by Guigue

I've had that happen a couple of times recently. Was it a Seagate? -- nm

Posted by David, Nailin' It (aka David) Aug 25 '09, 14:21

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It was actually a RAID tower with 6 HDs in it. I wasn't there (Thank God) but apparently we had power issues, and it fried the controller and 2 drives -- nm - Guigue Aug 25, 14:23 21
- so...you still have 4 god drive no problem - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:24 10
  - No, RAID 5 can only handle 1 drive failure. 2 drive failures and you're pretty much SOL. - Subversive Aug 25, 14:28 5
    - he has 4 good drive (and needs only 3) - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:31 4
      - No, a RAID 5 array with 6 drives could lose 1 drive without a problem. If it loses 2 drives, it's toast. - Subversive Aug 25, 14:33 3
        
        6 drives = - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:36 2
        
        Then that's not a RAID 5 array - Subversive Aug 25, 14:39 1
        
        well it's a IBM RAID 5 array from about 1995 - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:45
  - It was RAID 5 so there's a chance it could be recovered but it's in the pro's hands right now and apparently it's not looking good -- nm - Guigue Aug 25, 14:27 3
    - well then there is something else wrong - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:30 2
      - Hopefully this will be a wake up call, but I doubt it - Guigue Aug 25, 14:31 1
        
        like i said someone just works longer!! - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:34
- It wasn't on a UPS? -- nm - Scorpion Aug 25, 14:24 9
  - We're not really good at work for those things. I do my best to make things work but I'm an editor and it shouldn't be my job, I just don't have time - Guigue Aug 25, 14:26 8
    - you create stuff??? well thats just a wrong way to look at atuff - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:27
    - Mozy.com, very easy to use, very affordable in comparison to buying tape systems -- nm - Scorpion Aug 25, 14:27 6
      - We would have aroung 5-6 TB of stuff to back up... - Guigue Aug 25, 14:30 5
        
        well you don't replace all that data on a daily basis do you? - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:32 4
        
        At the very least 100GB, and sometimes we digitize 800+ in a day -- nm - Guigue Aug 25, 14:37 1
        
        UPS ...ASAP i'd say and mirror systems - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:40
        
        he does video editing, so maybe -- nm - zork Aug 25, 14:36 1
        
        crap...then - Danedukenuuk Aug 25, 14:38

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