When hard disks go boom
I’d been wondering lately why I’ve been getting “Semaphore timeouts” when reading/writing to one of my NAS volumes over NFS from my Vista machine. Today I found out why.
I came back in from BBQing some hamburgers to a shrill beep emanating from my office – I instantly thought the power had gone out and it was my Belkin UPS shouting. I was wrong, it was actually the RocketRAID 2310 in my NAS telling me that one of the Seagate 500GB Barracudas that I’ve recently pressed into use after them sitting dormant in my NAS machine for 9mos had died.
I’m currently filling out the Seagate RMA form and trying to decide whether I’m going to go to Frys and pick up a replacement drive to use until the replacement gets here or if I want to go out and buy four 1TB drives and upgrade my capacity.
Will post a followup documenting the hopefully easy steps to get my RAID-5 array working again.