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HP microserver doesn't have drive hotswap. The first time you find out your drive is dying, you really want it.
by vetinari 6y ago
HP microserver doesn't have drive hotswap.
The first time you find out your drive is dying, you really want it.
- teejmya 6y agoYou're correct that it doesn't support hotswappable drives out of the box. But there is a BIOS firmware floating around for the AMD generation microservers that lets you hotswap drives. (I've been running FreeNAS on an AMD microserver for a few years now.)
- amenod 6y agoCurious: why? Can't you simply shut down the NAS^wmicroserver and replace the failing drive then? (assuming the downtime is not a problem, which is probably the case with most home NAS installations)
- servercobra 6y agoOne fear I've heard from Sys Admin friends is that you'll have another drive failure when the machine tries to boot back up (and possible data loss if you're only running RAID5). As I understand it, there's a nonzero chance the drive is fine while it's still running, but will disappear or have trouble spinning back up after a reboot, so you want to rebuild your array before rebooting.
- flarg 6y agoSpot on, because the rebuilding process stresses drives that are likely as old as the one that failed
- hnick 6y agoIs there any truth to the advice that this is mitigated by buying drives from different retailers and aiming for different batches and average failure time?
- vetinari 6y agoHaving different batches reduces the risk of multiple devices failing at the same time. There's a higher chance of devices from the same batch failing simultaneously (due to the same material or fault during the manufacture) than from different batches, or even better, from different vendors.
- vetinari 6y agoYou don't know, whether you will be able to boot and mount the degraded array. Maybe you could, or maybe you will have to start shaving the yak. With hotswap, it is up and running, you can start repair straight away.