Seagate ST318404LC?

[bofhrevenge2]

Not sure i'm in quite the right place but im sure you'll let me know.

We have a server that we inherited a while back (we're a highschool so we gladly accept donations )that today lost a disk, on further inspection there are 4 Seagate ST318404LC 18gig disks in a stripe. We can't seem to get this disk from anywhere nearby. Is is possible to get another larger capacity disk and insert it into the RAID array. It users an AMI MegaRaid 40-LD Bios.

Any ideas or advice?

Thanks.

 

[technome]

You can use a 36 gig Seagate. Aside from the difficulty locating these disks, is the cost, higher than the 36 gig disks. I was is the same situation a couple of months back, very few references to "new" disks, plenty of "recertified drives", defintely do not go this route; they generally have a 1 year or less warranty.

http://www.rubyskytech.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=336753LC-XX3R

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Cheers for the reply technome, i've actually decided to ditch the bad disk and setup the remaining disks as RAID 5. It was setup as RAID 0 before .

We can get by with this for a while and try to budget for a new box.

 

[technome]

I made a poor assumsption it was raid 5. Good move toward the raid 5, raid 0 is beyond my fear threshold.

I have run into the inability to get replacement drives a number of times. In one raid it cost 3 times the original price for a drive, only 4 years later (long story, it needed to be the exact model)

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Yep i know what you mean, unfortunatly SCSI disks are a bit pricey for us to just have a few on the shelf in case.

Cheers.

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Hi technome just another Q if you don't mind.

We use RAID 5 on our two other Dell servers and they provide a consistency checker that I run once a month, I don't have a utility for the aforementioned server that is now RAID 5 can you suggest any utils?

Cheers.

 

[technome]

To be honest I only run the consistency cheaker if something is acting strangely. I have raid server which I have not run the checker for years. The raid device is AMI, now Lsilogic , you can download "Power Console", the raid software for AMI devices, from the Lsilogic.com site.

 

[bofhrevenge2]

I'll take a look over there.

Cheers.

 

[HddGuru]

http://www.ultratec.co.uk/

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